IN RE PRIMARY ELECTION BALLOT DISPUTE 2008

Docket No. SJC-243.

955 A.2d 216 (2008)

2008 ME 117

In the Matter of PRIMARY ELECTION BALLOT DISPUTE 2008.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided: July 15, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William P. Keefe, Esq., Yarmouth, ME, for Melissa Walsh Innes.

Harold C. Pachios, Esq. (orally), Preti, Flaherty, Beliveau & Pachios, LLP, Portland, ME, for Kimberly A. McLaughlin.

Panel: SAUFLEY, C.J., and CLIFFORD, ALEXANDER, LEVY, SILVER, MEAD, and GORMAN, JJ.


DECISION ON CERTIFICATION OF NOMINEE

[¶ 1] The Deputy Secretary of State has notified the Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court that, at the conclusion of the recount in the 2008 Democratic Party Primary Election between Melissa Walsh Innes and Kimberly A. McLaughlin for House District 107, there were enough disputed ballots to affect the outcome of that primary race, and those disputes must be resolved. We exercise our jurisdiction over the matter, see

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