2005 Idaho Code - 33-408 — ELECTION CONTESTS -- GROUNDS OF CONTEST

                                  TITLE  33
                                  EDUCATION
                                  CHAPTER 4
                               SCHOOL ELECTIONS
    33-408.  ELECTION CONTESTS -- GROUNDS OF CONTEST. The election of any
person to a school board of trustees, or an election concerning any
proposition submitted to a vote of the people in a school district election
may be contested:
    1.  For malconduct, fraud, or corruption on the part of the judges of
    election in any polling place or of any board of canvassers, or any member
    of either board sufficient to change the result.
    2.  When the incumbent was not eligible to the office at the time of the
    election.
    3.  When the incumbent has been convicted of felony, unless at the time of
    the election he shall have been restored to civil rights.
    4.  When the incumbent has given or offered to any elector, or any judge,
    clerk or canvasser of the election, any bribe or reward in money, property
    or anything of value for the purpose of procuring his election.
    5.  When illegal votes have been received or legal votes rejected at the
    polls sufficient to change the result.
    6.  For any error in any board of canvassers in counting votes or in
    declaring the result of the election, if the error would change the
    result.
    7.  When the incumbent is in default as a collector and custodian of
    public money or property.
    8.  For any cause which shows that another person was legally elected.
    9.  For any cause which shows that the election was not conducted in
    conformance with the provisions of this chapter.

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