Lehigh v. Wooley

Paul Ward, Justice.

This litigation concerns primarily the sufficiency of the application required of a qualified elector to vote by absentee ballot. More specifically we are here concerned with the “reason” which the elector must assign for his contemplated absence from his voting precinct on election day.

On September 28, 1965 a school election was held in the El Dorado School District No. 15. At that election Grady E. Wooley, Frances Duren, Herbert S. Woods, and Charles Van Ness (appellees herein) voted by absentee ballots, but their votes were not counted by Charles H. Lehigh and Eva Mae…