In re Medbury

Under subdivision 4 of section 330 of the Election Law (as amd. by Laws of 1926, chap. 237) an inspection of protested, wholly blank or void ballots may be directed, together with the recanvass or the correction of any error in the canvass in respect of those ballots. Subdivision 5 of the same section (as amd. by Laws of 1928, chap. 363) deals only with the canvass of returns made by inspectors of election or with the canvass of the returns *27made by inferior boards of canvassers. This section furnishes no authority for a hearing to open ballot boxes or to inspect or recount the ballots…