Monroe v. Graves County Board of Election Commissioners

CLAY, Commissioner.

This suit involves a petition for a recount of ballots cast in a magistrate’s race in the 7th Magisterial District of Graves County. The trial court denied the recount *726on the ground that the integrity of the ballots had not been satisfactorily shown as required by KRS 122.060.

This story has two parts. The first part covers a period of about two weeks when the 57 boxes containing the ballots of all Graves County’s precincts, including the seven precincts in dispute here, were successively in the custody of the Election Commission, the County Court Clerk, and the Circuit…