Case ID: wis-2d_40/html/0001-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Per Curiam.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

State ex rel. Lemieux, Petitioner, v. Zimmerman, Secretary of State, Respondent.
    
      No. State 106.
    
    
      Argued September 24, 1968.
    
    Decided September 24, 1968.
    
    (Also reported in 161 N. W. 2d 129.)
    
      For the petitioner there were briefs and oral argument by Jay G. Sykes of the state of Washington Bar, and Percy L. Julian, Jr., of Madison.
    For the respondent, appearing by Bronson C. La Fol-lette, attorney general, the cause was argued by William F. Eich, deputy attorney general.
   Per Curiam.

The sole issue before us is whether sec. 8.20 (6), Stats., is restricted to electors as candidates or whether it is extended to include independent Presidential and Vice-Presidential nominees. Sec. 8.20 (6) provides:

“Each candidate shall file with his nomination papers a declaration that he will qualify for the office, if elected.”

This section requires that declarations of acceptance and qualification be filed with the respondent, not only by the electors who are candidates, but also by the independent nominees for President and Vice-President who are deemed “candidates” for the purpose of meeting the requirements of sec. 8.20 (6).

Accordingly, the petition for alternative writ of mandamus is denied on its merits. 
      
      
        State ex rel. Barber v. Circuit Court (1922), 178 Wis. 468, 190 N. W. 563.
     
      
      
        State ex rel. Boulton v. Zimmerman (1964), 25 Wis. 2d 457, 130 N. W. 2d 753.