Roth v. LaFarge School District Board of Canvassers

¶ 1. This is an appeal from an order limiting the issues that intervenor Gail J. Muller could raise in an election dispute brought by Patricia H. Roth, and from an order and a judgment declaring that a referendum had succeeded. Three issues are in dispute: (1) whether the trial court properly concluded that Muller could not assert her own claim because her motion to intervene came after the statutory deadline for appealing the board of canvassers' decision; (2) whether a ballot initialed by only one inspector was legally excluded by the board; and (3) whether another ballot that Took[ed]…