Keefe v. Donnell
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On Exceptions by Defendant. Petition for mandamus against the respondent, as clerk of the town of Kittery, praying that the petitioner may be allowed to make examination of all the ballots, votes, stickers and check lists in his custody and which were used and unused at the state election held in said Kittery on the 12th day of September, 1898, and at which election the petitioner was supported as a candidate for representative to the legislature from the classed towns of…
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On Exceptions by Defendant. Petition for mandamus against the respondent, as clerk of the town of Kittery, praying that the petitioner may be allowed to make examination of all the ballots, votes, stickers and check lists in his custody and which were used and unused at the state election held in said Kittery on the 12th day of September, 1898, and at which election the petitioner was supported as a candidate for representative to the legislature from the classed towns of Kittery and Eliot. The petition alleges, among other things, that the respondent refused to exhibit or allow the…
1Opinion of the CourtEmery, J.
By Act of 1891, c. 102, § 25, as amended by Act of 1893, c. 267, being “an Act to provide for tbe printing and distributing ballots at the public expense, and to regulate voting for state and city elections ” it is provided that after the election is over “when the ballots have been sorted and counted and the result declared and recorded, all the ballots shall in .open meeting be sealed in a package which said package, together with the check lists sealed in the same manner as the ballots, shall be forthwith delivered to the city, town or plantation, clerk to be preserved by him as a public…
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