AMERICAN PARTY v. STATE ELECTION BOARD

No. 43026.

442 P.2d 291 (1968)

The AMERICAN PARTY, a Political Party, Reuel W. Little, N.L. Hiniker, Richard W. Ninde, Dave S. Harper, George Washington, Ben B. Prater, Dorothy Thompson, and Jerome Savage, Plaintiffs, v. STATE ELECTION BOARD of the State of Oklahoma, Composed of the Honorable Gene F. Blake, Chairman, the Honorable William F.H. Mattoon, Vice-Chairman, and the Honorable Basil Wilson, Secretary, Defendants.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

June 11, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

McAfee, Dudley, Taft, Cates & Mark, by John B. Dudley, Judson S. Woodruff, and Peter B. Bradford, Oklahoma City, for plaintiffs.

G.T. Blankenship, Atty. Gen., Brian Upp and Dale F. Crowder, Asst. Attys. Gen., Oklahoma City, for defendants.

Harley E. Venters, Robert D. Crowe and Von Russell Creel, Oklahoma City, for intervenor Charles G. Tate.

Archibald B. Hill, Jr., Oklahoma City, for amicus curiae, Archibald B. Hill, Jr., A.L. Dowell and Curtis Lawson.


BLACKBIRD, Justice:

The individual plaintiffs in this original action are prospective voters, and Presidential Electors, of a new organization given the name of, and hereinafter referred to as: "The American Party". They were selected as Presidential Electors nominated at a meeting they refer to as "a legally constituted convention of said party" on March 16, 1968.

Thereafter, on March 17, 1968, the American Party...

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