State Ex Rel. Haff v. Pask

The relator claims that Pask was ineligible to be a candidate in the election of November 8, 1932, because of the fact that Section 3, Article X, of the Constitution of Ohio, provides that “no person shall be eligible to the office of Sheriff, or County-Treasurer, for more than four years, in any period of sis years.” With this contention we are in accord.

The following are standard definitions of the word “eligibility”:

Black: “Capable of being chosen;” “competency to hold the office if chosen.”

Bouvier and Anderson: “This term relates to the capacity of holding as well as that of being elected…