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STATE DEMOCRATIC EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE v. RAINS

No. C-7921.

758 S.W.2d 227 (1988)

The STATE DEMOCRATIC EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, Bob Slagle, Chairman, and Bryan Poff, Jr., Relators, v. The Honorable Jack RAINS, Secretary of State, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Rehearing Denied October 26, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Randall Buck Wood, Ray, Wood & Fine, Austin, Harold D. Hammett, Fort Worth, for relators.

Patrick A. Pirtle, Amarillo, Jim Mattox, Atty. Gen., Lou McCrary, Asst. Atty. Gen., Austin, for respondent.

MAUZY, Justice.

This election mandamus involves the statutory process for the selection and certification of replacement nominees for the ballot. Justice Richard N. Countiss, an unopposed Democratic candidate for the Seventh Court of Appeals, withdrew from the race. Relators, the State Democratic Executive Committee, its Chairman Bob Slagle, and its replacement nominee, Judge Bryan Poff, sought to compel the Secretary of State to amend his certification of candidates...

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