Necaise v. Lott

Appellant, Lander Necaise, losing candidate for Supervisor of District Four, Hancock County, lost his contest before the committee and the special tribunal. We have reviewed the briefs, record, and the contents of the ballot boxes for the Kiln and Fenton Precincts, the only two involved in the contest, and find that there are some invalid votes that should not have been counted, but the number of invalid votes is insufficient to change the result, even if they had all voted for contestant.

In several respects, the managers failed to strictly follow the requirements of the statute in conducting…