Legal Opinion
Buonanno v. DiStefano
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Decided June 4, 1981No. 80-585-M.PPublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
KELLEHER, Justice.
This is a common-law certiorari proceeding in which Christopher P. Buonanno (Buo-nanno) challenges certain actions taken by the State Board of Elections (the board) following the general election held on November 4, 1980. Buonanno was one of the Democratic Party’s candidates for one of the three councilperson-at-large positions called for by the city of Cranston’s charter. He claims that the board erred when it (1) entertained a request for a recount of the votes cast for the at-large positions, (2) ruled that two voting machines had in fact malfunctioned with the…
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