Snortum v. Homme
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Oscar C. Snortum, the nominee of the Republican party tor the office of sheriff of Yellow Medicine county, for the purpose of making a contest appealed to the district court for that county from the count and canvass of votes by the county canvassing board made on November 7, 1908, declaring G. O. Homme to have received the largest number of votes for and to be elected sheriff of that county, and from the statement of that board made and filed with the auditor of the county…
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Oscar C. Snortum, the nominee of the Republican party tor the office of sheriff of Yellow Medicine county, for the purpose of making a contest appealed to the district court for that county from the count and canvass of votes by the county canvassing board made on November 7, 1908, declaring G. O. Homme to have received the largest number of votes for and to be elected sheriff of that county, and from the statement of that board made and filed with the auditor of the county that G. O. Homme had received 1,500 votes and Oscar C. Snortum had received only 1,240 votes. It was stipulated by the…
1Opinion of the Court
EER CURIAM.
The only question presented by this appeal is a construction of R. L. 1905, § 275, subd. 3, which provides that: .“When he [the voter] ■so desires, he may write other names in the blank spaces under the ■printed names of candidates, and the names so written shall be counted ,as balloted for, whether marked in the small square or not.”
The blank spaces are left on the official ballot to enable every voter, *467who so desires, to vote for any eligible elector he pleases. This is his constitutional right. The statute, then, must be liberally construed, and with reference to well-understood…
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