Rector v. Northglenn Metropolitan Recreation District

I dissent. Traditionally courts have been reluctant to invalidate elections once held unless there be a showing of misconduct of such a nature as would change the *39result thereof. The general rule, as I understand it, is that in the absence of fraud an election once held will not be overturned merely because of technical irregularity in connection therewith.

In the instant case, there is no suggestion that there was any fraud attendant to the special bond election. Furthermore, Mary Rector does not contend that any ineligible voter was permitted to vote. Nor does she intimate that any eligible…