Court Opinion

ID: 9703686
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 00:04:59.361802+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:12:43.860418
License: Public Domain

NEAL, Judge,
concurring.
I concur completely in the well reasoned majority opinion which is well supported by authority. I wish merely to add that the record does not reflect existence of any particular candidate or party for whom Michael Andrews wanted to cast his write-in ballot. It appears that the whole episode was a bizarre act calculated to harass, annoy, and absorb the time, energy, and efforts of election officials, prosecuting attorneys, the trial court, and now the court of appeals. Absent is any good faith motive to effect legitimate constitutional or statutory rights. While public officials and courts should be ever sensitive to the constitutional and statutory rights of citizens, they need not humor self-annointed messiahs whose sole motive is to make a nuisance out of themselves by the disruption of public business.