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KNUTSON v. DEPARTMENT OF SECRETARY OF STATE

Docket: Ken-08-375.

954 A.2d 1054 (2008)

2008 ME 124

John KNUTSON v. DEPARTMENT OF SECRETARY OF STATE and Herbert J. Hoffman.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided: July 28, 2008.

Order Staying Mandate August 20, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel W. Walker, Esq. (orally), Preti, Flaherty, Beliveau & Pachios, LLC, Augusta, ME, for John Knutson.

G. Steven Rowe, Attorney General, Phyllis Gardiner, Asst. Atty. Gen. (orally), Office of Attorney General, Augusta, ME, for the Secretary of State.

John H. Branson, Esq. (orally), Portland, ME, for Herbert J. Hoffman.

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

SAUFLEY, C.J.

[¶1] We are presented with two questions in this challenge by John Knutson to the potential nonparty candidacy of Herbert J. Hoffman for the office of United States Senator. Both are questions of first impression.

[¶2] The first question is as follows: when petitions in support of a prospective candidate are circulated for signatures, must the circulator have direct personal contact with potential signors and observe the signatures...

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