PARIS, (Reuters) – France’s highest court annulled the 2008 election of a mayor in the southern town of Perpignan yesterday, after the head of a polling station tried to change the result by smuggling in ballots in his socks.
When the votes for the election were counted in March last year, polling station head Georges Garcia was caught with ballots supporting Jean-Paul Alduy, a member of France’s ruling UMP party, in his pockets and socks.
Garcia was then caught again trying to get rid of envelopes containing ballots.
The Council of State, France’s highest court, confirmed a lower court ruling that annulled the vote. The election will be held again at a date to be fixed.
