Court Opinion

ID: 9538229
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 07:32:52.645974+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:57:40.782174
License: Public Domain

HALLEY, Justice
(dissenting).
I concur in the views expressed by Mr. Justice Blackbird and only wish to add a word to what has been said by him. The majority opinion confesses weakness that does not exist under our Constitution. In my opinion the evidence is overwhelming, and the trial court found, that there were enough illegal absentee votes cast in Wagoner County to change the result of the primary election and when voided Payne would have had a majority. No Legislature has the right to take away from this Court the right to correct wrongs when they occur regardless of the area of the life in which they may arise. We are clothed with the power under our Constitution to see that all elections are conducted fairly. I dissent.