Perles v. Northumberland County Return Board

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Jones,

The inception of this controversy was the municipal election held on November 5, 1963, in Northumberland County. “Among other officers to have been elected at that election was the entire board of county commissioners, and, consequently, the two judges of the court of common pleas of the county acted as the return board to compute and canvass the votes: Pennsylvania Election Code, Act of June 3, 1937, P. L. 1333, §1403, as amended (25 P.S. §3153) (hereinafter referred to as the Election Code).

“There were four candidates for the three offices of county commissioner…