In re Flanagan

Appeal by Harold Cowles, Republican candidate for supervisor of the town of Smithville, Chenango county, from an order made at Special Term of the Supreme Court under the authority of section 330 of the Election Law, which directed the town inspectors of election and board of canvassers to recanvass and count five ballots as legal votes for his opponent Gage Flanagan, the Democratic candidate. The return made by the inspectors on election night indicated that Flanagan had received 218 votes and Cowles 220. There are five protested ballots, each marked for Flanagan but each marked irregularly…