Ceola James v. Latrice Westbrooks

RANDOLPH, CHIEF JUSTICE, FOR THE COURT:

¶1. Former Court of Appeals Judge Ceola James lost the 2016 election for the Court of Appeals by nearly twenty-two thousand votes. James filed an election contest against the winner, Judge Latrice Westbrooks. 1 James alleged Westbrooks improperly affiliated with the Democratic Party and improperly aligned herself with a political candidate, Representative Bennie Thompson of Mississippi's Second United States Congressional District. James argued that she received all of the "legal" votes due to Westbrooks's alleged violations of election law and pleaded…