State ex rel. McKeever v. Cameron

The following opinion was filed March 6, 1923:

In this case the votes cast by the majority of electors of Washburn county for sheriff are held to be legal though ineffective votes. They were cast, however, by persons who knew at the time they so voted that the declared public policy of the state by constitutional provision had made the defendant Johnson, then sheriff, ineligible for election to succeed himself. They knew that such ineligibility would continue so as to make him ineligible to qualify unless and except at the very same *413«lection the majority of the voters throughout the state…