The Court concluded that the will of the electors supersedes any technical statutory requirements: "[T]he electorate's effecting its will through its balloting, not the hypertechnical compliance with statutes, is the object of holding an election.
It is contrary to the fundamental public policy of this state, as articulated by this court, which has held that "the electorate's effecting its will through balloting, not the hypertechnical compliance with statutes, is the object of holding an election".
In R v A, extra provisions were read into a statute to ensure compliance, since the statute itself had the legitimate aim of protecting potential rape victims; it was merely, in the words of Lord Steyn, that "the methods adopted amounted to legislative overkill".
"Nothing can be more essential than for a supervisor of elections to maintain strict compliance with the statutes in order to ensure credibility in the outcome of the election," the court wrote in its Seminole County decision, which it said also applied to the Martin County case.
"When you bring a summary proceeding in Housing Court, you have to have strict compliance with the statute," Mr. Himmelstein said.
Patients in the chest pain unit were eligible for the study if they were residents of our center's county or one of the surrounding nine counties and granted research authorization in compliance with Minnesota Statute 144.335.
He added that many of the board members who remain were "well aware of USAG's concealment of sexual abuse, its non-compliance with reporting statutes and harsh treatment of sexual abuse survivors". .
We also used descriptive statistics to calculate the median number of clinical trials per drug subject to FDAAA that were in compliance with the statute.
In other states, including Texas and Arkansas, officials said they were confident they were in compliance with the relevant statutes.
