Hallahan v. Ferguson

CULLEN, Commissioner.

In the November 1969 election for Second District Magistrate in Jefferson County, Kentucky, Democratic candidate Charles W. Ferguson was the putative winner in that he received 26,722 votes as against 25,237 for the only other person on the ballot, Republican candidate Lee Swan. However, the election was held void in a suit brought by Theodore Rhode, who had filed nomination papers as a candidate of the American Party but whose name the county court clerk had failed to put on the ballot. See Ferguson v. Rhode, Ky., 449 S. W.2d 758.

After the election was held void,…