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Votes, Challenge, Inspectors, Casting Vote

From the book The Clergyman’s Hand-book of Law, about Votes, Challenge, Inspectors, Casting Vote (1): The reception of illegal votes does not invalidate an election unless they change the result.339 If the presiding officer refuses to allow a qualified voter to vote, the right may be enforced through civil courts.340 When votes have been received without challenge, it is then too late to raise the objection that the persons have no right to vote.341 It is the duty of the inspectors to determine the qualifications of an elector at the time that he offers to vote, and before he votes; and if they decide in the exercise of their judgment, without malice or improper motives, the regularity of the election can not be questioned.342 When a rule allows the presiding officer to vote and another rule states that he shall have the casting vote in case of a tie vote, he still had the right to cast the decisive vote.343Illegal voting in a religious society probably is not an indictable offense, but it is a disorderly act.344

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Notes and References

1. Charles M. Scanlan, The Clergyman’s Hand-book of Law. The Law of Church and Grave (1909), Benziger Brothers, New York, Cincinnati, Chicago

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