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Pabey v. Pastrick
Indiana Supreme Court (2004) | 816 N.E.2d 1138; 2004 Ind. LEXIS 705; 2004 WL 1770562
TL;DR: A court ordered a new mayoral primary after finding the incumbent's campaign engaged in pervasive, deliberate absentee ballot fraud. The court held that such widespread misconduct can make an election's outcome untrustworthy, even without proving that the number of invalid votes exceeded the margin of victory.
Legal Significance: Establishes that in Indiana, a special election can be ordered for deliberate, pervasive fraud that "profoundly undermines" an election's integrity, creating a standard distinct from the mathematical proof required for mere mistakes or malfunctions. This lowers the burden for challengers facing systemic corruption.