State ex rel. Loss v. Board of Elections

The writ must be denied.

The form for declaration of candidacy in a party primary election for member of the State Central Committee is prescribed in B. C. 3513.07. This form was used by relator. The circulator’s affidavit therein requires that the number of signatures he obtained be stated.

It is contended by relator that the insertion of the number of signatures in the circulator’s jurat would only repeat what is readily observable by a count of the signatures themselves on the petition, and the failure to fill in this blank is insubstantial. Belator further argues that B. C. 3513.05 does not…