Foust v. May

OPINION

DROWOTA, Judge.

This case arises from an election contest of the August 5, 1982 general election for the office of sheriff of Anderson County. The principal issue on appeal concerns 186 applications for absentee voting ballots and whether the actions of the deputy registrar invalidated those ballots.

Appellant, Charles Gene Foust, contends that the trial court erred in not invalidating those absentee ballots in which the deputy registrar, Suzanne Reeves, failed to endorse on the application that the voter’s signature on the application was the same as that on the voter’s permanent…