Guess v. Lubbock

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• holding that strict compliance with election contest statutes' is required
• reciting the quoted language from Hockemeier and noting, “This Court has said that election contest statutes are a code unto themselves”
• “A general election contest challenges the validity of the very process by which we govern ourselves” and alleges “irregularity in the conduct of an election”
• “[E]lection contest statutes are a code unto themselves. The procedures there established are ‘exclusive and must be strictly followed as substantive law.’” (quoting Hockemeier v. Berra, 641 S.W.2d 67, 69 (Mo. 1982)
• “[Ejection contest statutes are a code unto themselves. The procedures there established are ‘exclusive and must be strictly followed as substantive law.’ ” (quoting Hockemeier v. Berra, 641 S.W.2d 67, 69 (Mo. banc 1982))
• “[W]e conclude that an election contest is procedurally analogous to an in rem action. The res is the election itself. The trial court acquires jurisdiction over the res when the election contest petition is filed in conformity with the requirements of [the local statute].”

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