IN RE GENERAL ELECTION RECOUNT

Nos. 59-100 Misc. 1983.

29 Pa. D. & C. 3d 508 (1983)

In Re: General Election Recount

Common Pleas Court of Somerset County, Pennsylvania.

December 27, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth W. Johnson, Dean A. Bowman, for contestant Maurer.

Thomas Jeffrey Cook, for contestant Bell.

William L. Kimmel, Kim R. Gibson, for Somerset County Board of Elections.


COFFROTH, P.J., December 27, 1983.

There are two legal questions at issue in this case:

(1) Is the prothonotary warranted in requiring a separate recount petition for each ballot box to be recounted, and payment of costs for each such petition, or may petitioner use a single petition for multiple ballot boxes at the cost of filing a single petition?

(2) What is a "substantial error" within...

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