State Ex Rel. Braverman v. Vitullo

By the Court.

The hoards of elections rejected in toto seven petition papers containing a total of 171 names, because the petition papers each bore signatures of persons whose addresses were not in the same county.

Section 4785-91, General Code, authorizing nominating petitions for independent candidates, requires that “each such nominating petition containing signatures of electors of more than one county shall consist of separate petition papers each of which shall contain signatures of electors of only one county.” (Italics ours.) A similar requirement appears in the seventh paragraph of…