Legal Opinion
Klumker v. Van Allred
New Mexico Supreme Court
Decided May 6, 1991No. 19077PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
MONTGOMERY, Justice.
This is an election contest. The unsuccessful Democratic candidate for the office of county commissioner in Catron County in 1988, 1 Georgia Klumker, challenged the result of the election, in which Republican Guss Van Allred was declared the winner by a vote of 735 to 731. Klumker contested this result in district court, 2 attacking the absentee ballots cast by three of Van Allred’s half-cousins (the Allred brothers) 3 and asserting that three other absentee ballots, cast for Klumker, had been improperly rejected by the precinct board and should have been counted in…
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