Arizona republican., 1921-07-04
Special and Regular Election.

Special and Regular Eieetions
 Neither our friend. the Gazette. The Republi- can is lawyer; neither legal authority and what neither has to say about special elections regis srations will affect of proceedings with spect to house bill S3. Nevertheless the discussion much it may lack of instructiveness to public. Our neighbor. however, fails to distinguish be- tween special and regular elections; that is, between elections whose dates fixed between bienniums. either by the legislature governor. nial elections whose dates fixed by statutes.
 Our neighbor, do all who contend that a regis trafson is condition precedent to the approaching election. the Colorado case of Fish, ct al vs kuEel ct a fin which the supreme of that state declared a town election to be nulty because it preceded by a registration, since the regis trasion board had deliberately refused to
 But that a regular election; the date of It fixed by statute. the laws of Colorado do the laws of all states require that there must be registration all such elections town. county In that opinion. in which the court declared the election be invalid. there recognized dis Sinction between irregular registration and the failure the board provide any registration; between what may call impossible registration and wilful failure the part the authorities provide for registration The opinions in illumina ting this distncton referred to the Piper other cases where special elections though there had been preceding registrations at which voters qualified by registration for a previous election
 The books abound in such decisions soms of which made reference All these special elections for which, one reason or another. the frequent being that there had been lack time for holding registration. Is that in such elections those not registered previously could but it declared that those qualified by registration should be deprived of the priv leee of voting because circumstances had made the qualification others impossible That rule, we Leve has been accepted.
 In the states whence these arose, perhaps all of them. there is provision for special rezzstration for reason another registra- impossible. In Arizona there is provision for special registration and the legislature which indicated desire" that election be held H. s. could not. if it would. have provided the whereby qualified electors not registered could be registered' for such election. previous legis- lasure might have amended the registration law per- mtsing special registration
 Our neghbor must be that under the istng law we have had many -bennum elections county removal elections elections bond and for ether purposes for which there and could other registration than the preceding general registration.
 We will let our neghbor. as well as other oppo- nents of house bill ss. secret, something their apparent advantage which they seem yet have discovered. defect. though incurable one House Bill s3. It awkwardly in section that
 That said proposed amendment shall be sub-
 mtted to the electors of the state of Arizona for
 their approval rejection at a special election
 which is hereby called for such to be held
 in provided by law, FOR GENERAL
 ELECTIONS, the eighth day of November
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 The legislature fell into the very error of employing words than necessary in the than needless of the expression FOR GENERAL. ELECTIONS" What the legislature meant we know, but inclined to think for special election to be held in provided bv law for general elections. registrations are specifically enjoined-
 The legislature may have supposed that a specia registration might be held and that in this and other respects law governing general election. might be applied. but we have observed rethe believe that its that complicating expression was only parrot-like.
 The plain outstanding fact is that the legislature was trying to order a special election, somethin, that 1t was empowered by the constitution do. W have no doubt that the court would not allow tn lerisatures ignorance of the registration dency to verbosty, its carlesseness defeat intention And have also no doubt that this mat fer will reach the supreme court if the opponents IT. E. S3 feel at all of their ground
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