Pearson v. Norton’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. ““A recount for such a purpose would not be within the usual range of judicial action, and so wide a departure from the ordinary course of judicial duty cannot be fairly inferred as the legislative intent from anything less than a plain expression of that intent. A design to require the court, without any exercise of judgment upon any question of law or fact, to order a recount merely because it is desired by one of the candidates, is not plainly expressed in the statute, and cannot be reasonably held to be its meaning.” (p. 380.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Free v. Wood