Image Credit pelican/Flickr/ CC BY-SA 2.0 The Louisiana Supreme Court on Thursday let stand a lower court’s decision that the existence of voter fraud in a local sheriff’s race warranted a new election.
“When a court is presented with proven errors, even when no candidate is responsible for those errors , it is compelled to act and uphold our Election Code,” Justice Scott Crichton wrote , concurring with the majority decision to leave the lower court’s decision in place. “In this case, a new election will ensure confidence in the final outcome.”
Following the state’s Nov. 18 election, early results indicated that Democrat Henry Whitehorn defeated Republican John Nickelson by one vote in Caddo Parish’s sheriff’s race. While an initial recount found “three additional votes for each candidate” and resulted in Whitehorn being declared the winner, a legal challenge brought by Nickelson alleging “the count was done too quickly and could […]
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