Court Opinion

ID: 9779012
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 21:32:57.215049+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T11:23:43.152093
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Mr. Justice Wilson
dissenting.
I respectfully dissent.
Vernon’s Annotated Texas Statutes, Election Code, Volume 9, Article 13.07, requires a run-off where no candidate receives “* * * a majority of the votes cast for the candidates for the office for which he is a candidate * *
Article 14.01 defines a candidate. It is uncontroverted that the two men who received the five write-in votes in the case at bar were not candidates within that definition. Here the legislature used apt language which would prevent inconvenience to the public and expense to the candidates. It seems to me that the construction adopted by the majority either deletes the words “for the candidates” from Art. 13.07 or alters the definition of the word candidate as contained in Article 14.01.
Opinion delivered September 24, 1954.