In re Primary Election Ballot Dispute 2008

DECISION ON CERTIFICATION OF NOMINEE

[¶ 1] The Deputy Secretary of State has notified the Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court that, at the conclusion of the recount in the 2008 Democratic Party Primary Election between Melissa Walsh Innes and Kimberly A. McLaughlin for House District 107, there were enough disputed ballots to affect the outcome of that primary race, and those disputes must be resolved. We exercise our jurisdiction over the matter, see 21-A M.R.S. § 737-A(10) (2007); In re Primary Election Ballot Disputes 2004, 2004 ME 99, ¶¶ 3-17, 857 A.2d 494, 496-500, and conclude that Innes…