State ex rel. Shepard v. Superior Court

This proceeding is directed against Otto. Case, the county auditor of King county. The question put to this court by the relators is whether that provision of the-general election law, which reads as follows,

“No candidate’s name shall appear more than once upon the ballot: Provided, that any candidate who has been nominated by two or more political parties may, upon a written notice-filed with the clerk of the board of county commissioners at least twenty days before the election is to be held, designate 'the political party under whose title he desires to have his-name placed;” (Rem. & Bal.…