In Re AHST Community School District Public Measure "B" Election

APPEL, Justice.

This dispute arises out of a challenge to a school bond election held on September 13, 2005 in the Avoca-Hancock-Shelby-Tenant Community School District (AHST). At the conclusion of the election, it appeared that the measure had obtained the required sixty percent supermajority by a narrow margin. After a recount and a contest court review failed to reverse the outcome, the plaintiffs filed an action in district court seeking to set aside the result. The district court dismissed the petition for lack of subject matter jurisdiction 1 due to the plaintiffs’ failure to timely file…