Legal Opinion
Pearlie M. Childrey Gwendolyn Patton v. Jim Bennett, in His Official Capacity as Secretary of State for the State of Alabama
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided August 5, 1993No. 92-6895PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HOEVELER, Senior District Judge:
This appeal involves a factual question: whether the Appellant, Gwendolyn Patton, submitted the minimum number of voter signatures required by Alabama law for her to have been named on the ballot as an independent candidate for the November 1992, election for the United States Senate. Having found no clear error in the district court’s conclusion that Patton failed to prove by a preponderance of the evidence that she submitted the required number of signatures to the Secretary of State within the deadline established by Alabama law, we AFFIRM the decision of…
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