Garcia v. Avila

OPINION

MURRAY, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment declaring the election of five officers in the 1978 general elections void and ordering new *402elections. Appellants, Raza Unida Party candidates, were declared the winners of the November 7, 1978, general elections held in Zavala County, Texas. Appellees, Democratic Party candidates, filed election contests requesting that they be declared the duly elected public officers and in the alternative that the elections be declared void.1

Individual voters were challenged on the following grounds: convicted felons; illegal aliens; nonresident…