Smith v. Long County Board of Elections and Registration

Summary

The Court affirmed the denial of an election-contest petition challenging a nine-vote probate-judge election. It held that the trial court properly aggregated the alleged irregularities, correctly declined to invalidate ballots based on isolated application defects, and did not clearly err in finding the challenged voters eligible or in concluding that only seven ballots were sufficiently irregular to count against the election result. The seven ballots did not exceed the nine-vote margin of victory.