Legal Opinion
Huggins v. Superior Court
Arizona Supreme Court
Decided February 15, 1990No. CV-88-0413-SAPublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
NOEL FIDEL, Vice Chief Judge,
Court of Appeals.
In a contested primary election decided by an eight vote margin, sixteen illegal votes were cast. The loser claims in this petition for special action that the election must be set aside because one cannot know which of the candidates received the highest number of legal votes. We have taken jurisdiction to reexamine the law that governs elections when illegal votes exceed the margin of victory.
FACTS
In the 1988 primary election for Navajo County Attorney, petitioner Bret H. Huggins narrowly lost the Democratic Party nomination to real party in…
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