IN RE DISPUTE IN ELECTION OF TOWN COUNCILOR

Docket SJC-17-8.

176 A.3d 1290 (2018)

2018 ME 2

IN RE BALLOT DISPUTE IN ELECTION OF TOWN OF WINSLOW DISTRICT 3 TOWN COUNCILOR.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided January 11, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ronald W. Bourget, Esq. , Law Offices of Ronald W. Bourget, Augusta, for Jerry A. Quirion.

Lee A. Trahan did not file a memorandum.

Panel: SAUFLEY, C.J., and ALEXANDER, MEAD, GORMAN, JABAR, HJELM, and HUMPHREY, JJ.


JUDGMENT OF THE COURT

[¶1] The Town Clerk of Winslow, after conducting a vote recount, tabulated the results and concluded that there was a single disputed ballot in the race for a Town Council seat in District 3 in Winslow in the November 7, 2017, election. Because that single disputed ballot could make a difference in the election, we have original jurisdiction to determine the result of the election. See 21-A M.R.S. § 737-A(10) (2017). Having...

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