A man who was defeated by one vote in the Amagasaki City Council election in June last year complained that the election management committees of the city and Hyogo Prefecture did not have clear standards for counting valid votes and that it was illegal. The court ruled to dismiss the man's appeal, confirming his disqualification.
In the Amagasaki City Council election held in June last year, former Amagasaki City Council member Mikazu Terasaka, who lost by one vote to the candidate who won the last place, said that the Hyogo Prefectural election management questioned whether the ballot counting procedure was appropriate. I submitted a request for review to the committee, but as a result of recounting by the prefectural election management committee, the difference in votes spread to 3 votes, and it was dismissed as "the result of the election will not change."
Gen Terasaka sued about this, claiming that ``the standards for counting valid votes in the prefectural and city election management committees are not clear and illegal,'' and canceled the judgment of the prefectural election committee and placed it at the lowest rank. I asked for the invalidation of the election of the candidate who won the election.
In April this year, the Osaka High Court pointed out that ``the calculation was partially incorrect'' and judged that the difference in votes was 2 votes, but ``there is no risk of affecting the result, and the election is not recognized as invalid. I dismissed the complaint saying no.
Terasaka was dissatisfied with the decision and filed an appeal, but Masaaki Oka, Chief Judge of the First Petty Bench of the Supreme Court, decided to reject the appeal by the 31st, confirming his defeat.