Akaka v. Yoshina

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• candidates for Office of Hawaiian Affairs Trustee positions contended that ballots were mishandled
• an election challenge cannot be based on “mere belief or indefinite information”
• in order for an election challenge to have merit, “the petitioner must ‘show that he [or she] ha[s] actual information of mistakes or errors sufficient to change the result[;]’” an election contest cannot be based upon mere belief or indefinite information
• in order for an election challenge to have merit, “the petitioner must ‘show that he [or she] ha[s] actual information of mistakes or errors sufficient to change the result[;]’” an election contest cannot be based upon mere belief or indefinite information
• in order for an election challenge to have merit, “the petitioner must ‘show that he [or she] ha[s] actual information of mistakes or errors sufficient to change the result[;]’” an election contest cannot be based upon mere belief or indefinite information

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).