Parker v. McCants

Ronnie A. Parker, the Probate Judge and Election Superintendent of Taylor County, appealed the superior court judgment requiring him to validate petitions seeking a recall election for two county commissioners. He asserts several irregularities which he contends fatally infect the petitions: (1) in some instances the circulators signed as electors petitions which they were circulating; (2) two circulators signed the affidavit on petitions when neither of the circulators saw all of the electors sign; and (3) a notary public notarized the circulator’s affidavit on a petition which the notary…