Court Opinion

ID: 9592230
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 00:11:49.039714+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:03:01.468793
License: Public Domain

JOHN A. McGUIRE, Superior Court Judge
(concurring).
I concur in this decision and in all that is said in the opinion except that portion relating to the application of the rule of ejusdem generis to the statutory expression “other offense against the elective franchise”.
*607This' Court has unanimously held as a matter of statutory interpretation that the offense of electioneering at the polling place does not come within the term “offense against the elective franchise”. Hence, it is not a ground for an election contest.
I consider any discussion as to what rule would apply in the case of an act which is an offense against the elective franchise, but not of the same seriousness as giving bribes or rewards, is unnecessary to the decision and is dicta.
I, therefore, express no opinion on this point.
NOTE: Judge James Duke Cameron having requested that he be relieved from the consideration of this matter, Superior Court Judge John A. McGuire was called to sit in his stead and participate in the determination of this decision.