State Democratic Executive Committee v. Honorable Jack Rains

MAUZY, Justice.

This election mandamus involves the statutory process for the selection and certification of replacement nominees for the ballot. Justice Richard N. Countiss, an unopposed Democratic candidate for the Seventh Court of Appeals, withdrew from the race. Relators, the State Democratic Executive Committee, its Chairman Bob Slagle, and its replacement nominee, Judge Bryan Poff, sought to compel the Secretary of State to amend his certification of candidates so as to omit the name of Justice Patrick A. Pirtle, the nominee the Republican Party was entitled to name upon Justice…