13-36-101. Grounds for contest of nomination or election to public office. An elector may contest the right of any person to any nomination or election to public office for which the elector has the right to vote, for any of the following causes:
     (1) on the ground of a deliberate, serious, and material violation of any provision of the law relating to nominations or elections;
     (2) whenever the person whose right is contested was not, at the time of the election, eligible to such office;
     (3) on account of illegal votes or an erroneous or fraudulent count or canvass of votes.

     History: En. Sec. 45, Init. Act, Nov. 1912; re-en. Sec. 10810, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Sec. 10810, R.C.M. 1935; Sec. 94-1464, R.C.M. 1947; redes. 23-4763 by Sec. 29, Ch. 513, L. 1973; amd. Sec. 59, Ch. 365, L. 1977; R.C.M. 1947, 23-4763; amd. Sec. 224, Ch. 571, L. 1979.