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PEREIRA v. SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH

No. 90-P-1188.

29 Mass. App. Ct. 499 (1990)

561 N.E.2d 876

LINDA PEREIRA & others vs. SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH & others.

Appeals Court of Massachusetts, Bristol.

November 9, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eric J. Mogilnicki, Assistant Attorney General, for Secretary of the Commonwealth.

Evans J. Carter for Arthur Machado.

Joseph P. Hannon for Leonard Gonsalves.

Armand Fernandes, Jr. (Kevin J. Finnerty with him) for the plaintiffs.

Present: WARNER, C.J., PERRETTA, & KASS, JJ.

PERRETTA, J.

Four names appeared on the Democratic primary election ballot for the office of Bristol county commissioner, which is for a term of four years. Of these candidates, three were from Fall River, including the plaintiff Pereira. The fourth, the defendant Gonsalves, was of Dartmouth. Because of the resignation of a commissioner who had served only two of the four years of a term, there was another contest...

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