Mathews v. State Election Board

SIMMS, Justice.

Petitioner, a declared candidate for District Judge, Seventh Judicial District, Oklahoma County, ’Office No. 14, seeks mandamus to require the State Election Board to strike the name of Intervenor, Joe Cannon, who filed his declaration for the same office, from the November, 1978, general election non-partisan judicial ballot; or in the alternative, command the Board to conduct an evidentiary hearing to determine if in-tervenor will have been a bona fide resident of Oklahoma for a period of six months next preceding the November 1978 general election.

Timely contest to…