**OFFICE OF**  **THE AlTORNEY**  **GENERAL OF**  **TEXAS AUSTIN**  **am&WC.-**
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### Rerron **ccunty Auditor**  **Aroher City,**  

### Tsxaa rion.xlllard L. Thrwt; 

### County.AttOriaeY Aroher City,Texas .

&mron, County Auditor and

in Archer County, Texf45, "I. ~uestlon. AmI rrqulrd to place the nenm of h'ellir l?avl5 ae nomlnrr or thr rmmooratio 

### Farty for tha otfloeof DirtriOtClark oa 

### the 

### Ooosrrl Elootion BallOt? : ; :

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### Hon. Bert X. Brron, lion. Eillard L. Threat, pa@ e

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Am I m&rod to plaoe the zxmo of Garvay ::eluglnns nonines of the Derwcratlo Farty for tho 0rfiCe Of Dintrict an4 County Clerk on th @morn1 zleotionBallot?
. . ." ':;e are llkowlse in reoaipt oi a oommnloatlon from :Ir, Threet, County Attorney of Aroher County frcm whioh urn quot8a8

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"f!mre were a3verel votes tabulotod for Dlrtrict & C.mnty Clerk in thm July Frbry, aa a joint orfica, which said votos wore counted and c+rtlflad along, with other nanem, to tho County Clark. should the County Clork plaoe the name of tb3 ncmlnec for the ,!oint cfti~ee Of District k County Clerk on the Cendral Flsotion Ballot?w In Opiclon No. O-2591, to Eonoroblo 2. D. Allen, DistriatAttorney, Mohita falls, TSX~R, thfo dup3rtmnt ruled "that **ths** attempted ncnlantioa by thovoters ot krchsr /c- County

### or ii28rroach ‘ap.d Jsck L!erodlthto thd office of County clerk and xrs. Nell10 Davis to the GffiCe of distrlot olarkw%a in acch CGE~ 1Peffeotlve 8~ a zominctlxi to any ,,i&:>.:::i

ofrloe sub:eot to being flUed by 

### the votero at the fGrthcotinr, ~onox11 olaotlon* and tbat tho attczpt of uovon~voterr of Arhier County to no*&atr Carvey Xelu&n to the one 

## oriice of county nr?d dlctrlot clerk by wrltlw In both tb3 t:tlo or the orfioo and the name GS such ptreon vm likewise inerrCOtiV43 86 4.3 nG?SfnatiOn Of t#UCh pWJOn t0 the OmOe Ot 

## OOuaty and dietrict olsrk Of Archer COWty, Tc)xM.~ Copies OSthi8 opinion are being enolormI,‘hrrwlth, for your 

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It iollows iroE the

### ruling thus 1~53 that these reopeotive atttmptad 

### nominations aro 

## orn0 roroo an4 

## dr0ot and the individuals involved should 

### neither be oertliied by the County Desocratio Zxroutive Committee aa. 

### the ncmlaees or the defoorntio ,mrty aor their 

### aamem ~plizosdon the &en- : era1 

### elootlon ballot. As 

### dobisred in 

### our opinion No, O-%391, the

### respootive ofrioe# OSoounty alerk ml district olerk of Aroher Oouaty &~a nob efrtarr rubjeo0 te **bein** filled by tha qual-

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,- Con. Cert X. Fiorrcn, i?on. Xillard t. Throet, Pa&e3

lflodvoters nt the forthocnlng gczoral eloctlon; In lieu t;?uroor, there is only the one orriO 6.i oounty and dlotrict clcr\l to be flllod. In the abeonce of legal noalneoathercfor,mnifoctlr only the title cf the office MT be printed on the gmeral olootlofi ballot, Irotru&t tha foregoing will clmffy ths ancmlour sltuatiohexistiN in your oountg with roferonoo to these lxtters. ~dvortl~ to 

### the epooiiio quoatlonsoekcd by Xx. Throet,County Attoraay, and i!r.Rorron, County Auditor, quote4 herolnnbovo,we quote as follows from the caao oi Couoh et al v, FAll, County Clerk, et al; 10 9. :7.(cd) 170, 172 (error diemlsrod)

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,,>,>,::,.:::;:::::: "So is it contended by appellants that the duty of tha county clark to publish'appollantr~ nccos aa the noninoee oi the Ropubllcon Party for the offices thoy sook, and to print those name8 on the orricm ballot, was purelymldotorlal in its chsrsotor; that the olork 18 clothedv;lthno disOrcti0n in the matter; and thatupon roooipt Gf Fer;u&on's OertiflCato, theduty we6 absolutely mndotory u?on the olork to publishappellants' napiB8 and place t!m on the .orrlolalballot. %'ooverrule ells contoatlon. The olerk'sdutp 1s to publish the zmoo in the oortlrlcote, and print them on the ballet, w>:enthese nar~o6 ara of lcaadldatee w30 haverecoivod the necessary votes to aorzlnatef then (article 3129) and when thoee ntmor *have been lawfully certified to bin' (ortlols3132). The orrlolal ballot shall omtain thenames of those only *whoson0min9tione r0r on slootlvo

## 0rric0hay0 been duly aede and properly cortiflod~ (article 2970), and *no naz.eshall appear on the officialballot except that of a condldate who waa actuallynominated
. . . in accordancewith the prOYisiOa8 Oi.thia title' tartiC 29781. In view or

### those movielone. and a# a preotioable'&attorbasidee, 

### it ib Olear thit the county clerkmust not blindly ,publleh and prlnton J&&j,& t 90 &e

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E;n.Eert %. iiorrcn,?Ton. Killed L. Threet, l%ge 4

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## pr0c3ea**cnutlouely** satlerylng **FXK?SiY ns**  **to the**  **authcrlty** uf t;:gsiirzxzcljrtlThe Cutp ot the oounty olrrk in 

### the l ituatloa at hand1s thus fully not out.. Your8 YSly 

### truly . .-., 

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