State ex rel. Williams v. Moorhead

Sedgwick, J.,

dissenting..

The majority opinion decides that, when the election commissioner reaches the final conclusion as to whether *573the applicant for registration is a legal voter, if the facts, which they say can be shown only by affidavit, “are sufficient in substance, so that reasonable minds would draw the conclusion therefrom that the registration is correct * * * sufficient to satisfy a reasonable person that he is a citizen and entitled to vote,” the applicant must be regarded as a qualified voter. This, of course, contemplates that the commissioner will ascertain and decide whether…