La Raza Unida Party v. Dean

ORIGINAL MANDAMUS PROCEEDING

CALVERT, Chief Justice.

La Raza Unida Party, an independent political party without a state organization, seeks by this proceeding to have writs of mandamus issued to the county judges and county clerks of Dimmit, La Salle and Zavala Counties directing that the names of the party’s nominees for certain county and precinct offices be printed on the ballot to be used in the general election in November. The petition for the writs is denied.

The right of political parties without state organizations to have the names of their local nominees placed on the general…