Rodriguez v. Thompson

OPINION

This is an election contest involving the naming of the Democratic nominee for Sheriff of Presidio County. The trial Court determined that the Appellee received 999 legal votes and the Appellant 994 legal votes. We affirm after having reduced Ap-pellee’s count by two votes.

The trial Court disallowed 21 votes cast for Appellant and 12 votes cast for Appel-lee. The Appellant complains here only as to 6 of his votes which were disallowed. Five of these were disallowed because the voters lived with their families in Mexico and were determined not to be residents of Presidio County. His…