Harmon v. Wilson

DUNCAN, Justice.

This appeal involves a recount proceeding between rival candidates for the office of member of the Martin County Board of Education from Educational Division No. 4. As certified by the election commissioners, appellant Harmon received 411 votes as against 416 for appellee Wilson. On the recount, Harmon is shown to have received 410 and Wilson 414 votes.

Among the votes counted for Wilson were twenty-eight absentee ballots, which if deducted from his total would change the results of the election. Harmon insists that the inner envelopes in which the absentee ballots were…