Legal Opinion
Jones v. Samora
Colorado Court of Appeals
Decided December 29, 2016No. Court of Appeals No. 15CA1136PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
JUDGE BERNARD
¶ 1 Americans cherish their right to cast secret ballots in elections of public officers. So what should a court do if it learns that there was a flaw in handling ballots that created the opportunity for election judges to learn the identities of some voters who had mailed in their ballots? In this case, although the flaw created such an opportunity, the trial court found that the opportunity did not flower into a reality. In other words, the election judges did not take advantage of the opportunity to learn who had mailed in these ballots.
¶ 2 And the flaw did not…
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- Parker v. Blauvelt Volunteer Fire Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1999
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