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- Title: Washington v. Reeves
- Author : En Banc No. 28232 Supreme Court of Washington
- Release Date : January 15, 1940
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
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[5 Wash2d Page 638] BLAKE, C. J. -- Chapter 94, Laws of 1937, p. 383 (Rem Rev. Stat. (Sup.), ?? 5167 to 5170-7 [P.C. ?? 2157-51 to 2157-60], inclusive), provides ""for an exclusive method by which minor parties may nominate candidates for public office."" Briefly, the act provides that, upon notice given as prescribed in the act, twenty-five or more registered voters may assemble on primary election day, hold a convention, adopt a party name and principles, and nominate candidates for public office. The act requires that the nominations be certified to the secretary of state in a certain manner, and that the certificate of nomination ""shall designate, in not more than five words, the party or principle which such convention represents . . ."" (Italics ours.) Upon receipt of the certificate, the secretary of state is required under ? 6 of the act, p. 384 (Rem. Rev. Stat. (Sup.), ? 5170-2 [P.C. ? 2157-56]), to