State ex rel. Harris v. Breit-Haupt

I am not attacking persons but opinions, not motives but reasons, not judges but decisions. Therefore, any appearance of criticism as distinguished from earnest presentment would be an error of the mind, not of the heart.

I cannot subscribe to the majority view— to the doctrine of total disfranchisement of these electors because of an accident — the spilling of ink on the official ballots, both the voters and the commissioners being free of fault. The rule adopted is as unholy as it is contrary to the natural law — that the lesser should not control the greater. The ink splotches were…