McCOY v. MAYER

No. 18556.

333 F.2d 151 (1964)

Frederick M. McCOY, Appellant, v. Charles H. MAYER et al., Individually and as Members of the District of Columbia Board of Elections, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided April 21, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Edgar B. May, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Mr. Hubert B. Pair, Asst. Corp. Counsel for the District of Columbia, with whom Messrs. Chester H. Gray, Corp. Counsel, and Milton D. Korman, Principal Asst. Corp. Counsel, were on the pleadings, for appellees.

Before WILBUR K. MILLER, BASTIAN and McGOWAN, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

A petition seasonably filed with the Election Board nominated Frederick M. McCoy as a candidate in the Democratic primary May 5, 1964. Although the petition bore the required number of signatures, the Board rejected it because it did not comply with a regulation which requires that a heavy horizontal line or series of "x" marks be placed immediately below the name of the last candidate nominated by the petition "to prevent the addition of names of other...

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