In the 1931 case of Carroll v. Becker, Secretary of State, the United States Supreme Court dealt with a dispute over an election for a seat in the Michigan House of Representatives. The petitioner, Thomas F. Carroll, had been declared the winner by a slim margin but his opponent contested this result and was subsequently declared victorious by state authorities after they conducted their own recount. Carroll then sued to have himself reinstated as victor on grounds that some votes were improperly excluded from his total during this recount process. The Supreme Court ruled against him because he failed to provide sufficient evidence supporting his claim that these votes should have been included in his tally or that their exclusion materially affected the outcome of the election. Furthermore, it found no constitutional violation since there was no indication that Michigan's procedures for handling disputed elections were fundamentally unfair or biased against any particular candidate.

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