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Hammond v. Hickel

Citations

  • 588 P.2d 256
  • 1978 Alas. LEXIS 499

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • relying on Boucher v. Bomhoff, 495 P.2d 77, 80 (Alaska 1972)
  • “evidence of an election official’s good faith may preclude a finding of malconduct under certain circumstances”
  • \evidence of an election official's good faith may preclude a finding of malconduct under certain circumstances\
  • “There were no such numerous serious violations as to permeate the entire election process, so as to require the extreme remedy of a new election.”
  • disenfranchised votes added to totals of candidates in proportion to votes received by candidate in precinct where disenfranchised votes would have been counted
  • “The total number of votes affected by [incidents of malconduct] must . . . be considered in ascertaining whether they are sufficient to change the result of the election.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Rabinowitz, Chief Justice, Connor, Boochever and Burke, Justices, and Dimond, Senior Justice

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