Swartz v. Helm

Bowman, J.,

By complaint in mandamus, plaintiffs seek an order of this court directing the Secretary of the Commonwealth to accept and file their nomination papers and to thereafter certify to the appropriate county boards of election their names as candidates for public office of the Constitutional Party — an independent political body — at the forthcoming general election. Three of the plaintiffs seek State-wide office;1 the others seek office as either representative to the United States Congress or to the General Assembly of Pennsylvania from particular districts in the Commonwealth.2

After…