LUKES v. BOARD OF ELECTION COMMISSIONERS OF WORCESTER


423 Mass. 826 (1996)

KONSTANTINA LUKES v. BOARD OF ELECTION COMMISSIONERS OF WORCESTER & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

November 26, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Francis J. Cranston for the plaintiff.

David M. Moore, City Solicitor, for the defendants.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., ABRAMS, GREANEY, & FRIED, JJ.


ABRAMS, J.

At issue is whether in a city election, G. L. c. 43B, § 17 (1994 ed.),2 requiring blank spaces for write-in votes, applies to the final ballot under Worcester's home rule charter. The plaintiff, Konstantina Lukes, an elected councillor at-large, brought this action in the nature of mandamus in the Supreme Judicial Court for Suffolk County (single justice session) against the board...

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