Wilkinson v. Beardsley

How courts have described this case

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• losing candidate challenged failure to count write-in votes because if such votes were counted he would be entitled to office
• “By forbidding write-in votes for candidates appearing on the machine, the Legislature has erected a considerable safeguard against the failure of the locking mechanism.”
• in absence of manifestly contrary intention of legislature, two apparently conflicting statutes must be construed so that both are allowed to operate
• in absence of manifestly contrary intention of legislature, two apparently conflicting statutes must be construed so that both are allowed to operate
• in absence of manifestly contrary intention of Legislature, two apparently conflicting statutes must be construed so that both are allowed to operate
• in the absence of a manifestly contrary intention on the part of the legislature, construction of two statutes which allows both to operate is mandatory

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).