State Ex Rel. Taylor v. Lucas County Board of Elections

I respectfully dissent.

This court has been favored by an extraordinarily scholarly decision of the trial judge and I note that he obviously did a great deal of research and analysis before he drafted his judgment order.

However, as to his conclusion and that of my learned colleagues, I must respectfully dissent.

Initially, it should be noted that very little time was given to this court and the trial court in which to deliberate this very important and unusual case. Copies of the final brief were hand-delivered to the homes of the various members of this panel on Saturday afternoon, November…