Cohn v. Isensee
California Court of Appeal
PROCEEDING in Mandamus to compel a city clerk to provide ballots containing suitable blank spaces wherein electors may write in the names of persons not printed thereon. Peremptory writ issued. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtFinlayson, P. J.
This is an original petition for a writ of mandate to compel respondent, as the city clerk of the city of San Buenaventura, to provide for the use of the voters at a recall election, to be held in that city on the twenty-seventh day of this month, official ballots with blank spaces wherein the voter may write the names of persons whose names are not printed on the ballot.
It appears from the petition, to which a general demurrer has been interposed, that, following the filing of a recall petition, signed by the necessary number of qualified electors and petitioning for the recall of two of the…
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