State ex rel. Williams v. Moorhead

The last legislature enacted a statute for counties having 150,000 or more inhabitants, providing a system of registration of voters. Laws 1913, ch. 36. The statute created the office of election commissioner to be appointed by the governor of the state. He was clothed with extensive and perhaps unusual powers and duties, and his term of office] after the first appointment, was fixed at two years. Under this statute an election commissioner was appointed for Douglas county who entered upon the duties of the office. He was authorized to appoint a “chief deputy,” and other deputies and…