Murphy v. Democratic Executive Committee of Harahan

YARRUT, Judge.

This is a Primary Election contest and involves only the legal question: Whether votes cast for a withdrawn candidate, whose name appeared on the voting machine notwithstanding his timely withdrawal, should have been counted in determining which candidates were nominated in the'first primary, and which must enter a second primary.

Plaintiffs are three of thirteen candidates who qualified for nomination for five al-dermanic posts, two of whom claim they should be certified as nominated in the first, and not required to enter a second primary. They contend the Democratic Executive…