E-FILED   7/21/2020 10:52 AM
CC-19-2019-P-136
Jefferson County Circuit Clerk
Laura Storm

/s/ Debra McLaughlin
Circuit Court Judge
Ref. Code: 20QZSXFR

In the Circuit Court of Jefferson County, West Virginia
Nancy Singleton Case,
Deborah A. McGee,
Plaintiffs,

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Corporation of Harpers Ferry,
Harwick Smith Johnson,
Charlotte Ward Thompson,
Christian Pechuekonis,
Marjorie Flinn Yost ET AL,
Defendants

Case No. CC-19-2019-P-136

ORDER
On November 6, 2019, this Court entered an Order Reversing the September 11 Order
regarding Election Results. From that Order both parties appealed to the West Virginia Supreme
Court. On June 15, 2020 the WV Supreme Court entered its Opinion regarding this Court’s
November 6 Order and on July 16, 2020 remanded the case back to this Court. While the WV
Supreme Court affirmed this Court’s ruling that the four votes in question should be opened and
counted; the WV Supreme Court did reverse this Court’s November 6, 2019 ruling regarding the
question of standing of Nancy Singleton Case.
Accordingly, for the reasons stated more fully by the WV Supreme Court in its Order
dated June 15, 2020, this Court does find that Nancy Singleton Case does have standing to
participate in the election contest pursuant to WV Code 3-7-6.
For all the reasons set forth by the Supreme Court in its June 15, 2020 Opinion and this
Court’s Order of November 6, 2019 and this Order herein, this Court does REVERSE the
decision of the Harpers Ferry Contest Tribunal Order Declaring Election Results and ORDERS
that the Harpers Ferry Town Council count the provisional ballots of L. McCarty, G. McCarty,

 Howell and Hutton.
/s/ Debra McLaughlin
Circuit Court Judge
23rd Judicial Circuit
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