In Re Brown

OPINION

Opinion by

Justice LANG-MIERS.

In this original proceeding, relator Ada Brown, the incumbent judge of and Republican Party candidate for County Criminal Court No. 1, asks this Court to order the chair of the Dallas County Democratic Party to remove Dan Patterson’s name from the Democratic primary election ballot for the same office. We deny relator’s request for mandamus relief.

Patterson, the real party in interest, submitted his application for judge of the County Criminal Court No. 1 on the Democratic Party primary election ballot. Accompanying the application were Patterson’s thirty…