Recount ordered in Listowel elections
Five judges of the Supreme Court yesterday unanimously upheld former senator Dan Kiely’s claim that there was a “mistake” in the conduct of the local election within the meaning of the relevant provision of the Local Elections (Petitions and Disqualifications) Act 1974, to the extent that it rendered it unlawful.
The mistake arose from the inclusion in the count of votes which contained a sequence of numbers not starting with the number ‘1’.
