Mathews v. State Election Board

BRIGHTMIRE, Special Justice

(specially concurring):

In my opinion the term “qualified elector” was used in Art. VII, Sec. 8(g) as a means of incorporating by reference Art. Ill, Sec. 1 citizenship, age, and residency provisions as qualifying requirements for district judges. One of these residency prerequisites is that the candidate shall have resided in this state for “at least six months next preceding the election . ”■—a requirement which I think was not destroyed by Dunn’s1 conclusion that unreasonable durational residency requirements for voting privileges infringed upon a citizen’s…