OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS
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Your requert for an oplnsoa ha8
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Article 666-32 Vernoon~s Panotated Penal Code of Texar
reada, ln part, aa follour:
74
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8 aftor the &to of 188~0
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Of lY rueh.)mt
jU8tlOa prurlwt, Iaeorporated tom OS rIt7,
with a mtatloa &Wry thm zmI&owe lddmrr
Of tb WI6 8l&wI., tw tb VOt@ Sfo r 6OWF Wr lt
th 8la r t nredily *wral ltat1ooo at +hArh tIm0 -81.
d*Bthl 0p.OtOr8 VON O&Ok& l8 th# k818 for dOt.niW
the7 nrId8 to dotrralw rbther or wt the algaerr oi
8Wh titiOa Ar@ lm fbOt q~&liried wt8?8 Or th8 OOUQt7
or p0E t1Oal 8PbdiV1810~at tb tiw r&oh p8titiOo 18
pl'O8Mt.6, ati t0 OOFtiiJ tb th. 6WBi88iOW,r8 OOUFt
tiU nWb.E Of QWliftid VOtOr8 844fAhQ 8U8h mtition.'
Uo quot. Vol. 16, 98n8 h?18pWbW, ~860 2l, A8 fool-
1OW8:
Qf th8 lw direotr an dtloor or OmOOr8 to ardor
a a lleotioa rh8a l oertalo aub8r or ptmliflo~ totor
hAv0 jolwd la l petition for the maw, it 18 ude th8
duty 0r th8 officer8 to ucortala rhothmr or not the re-
qUl8lte UUdW Of TOt8P8 &vO jOiWd 10 th8 ptitiOti arid
Whether they 8F8 qwmed. 6OUeWr, the OfriCid8 ~111
b8 lllouecl to axerclre their own di8CretloR 1~ thlr mat-
t8r, provided that tbsir d8ClriOn 18 based Up9Q F8a8Ofl
ati f&irWll, sod 18 Iiot lmpellsd by fraud Or C4prlO8,'
It 18 OLW OpiniOn that tb COUIItJ 018Fk, VhsWV8r l &X%tl-
tioa called for under Article 666-32 18 prswnted to hb, may lopt
any means he deem@ uecsasary 8nd proper to determine vhcther or not
the signers of ruch a petition are qualified voters of the county
or political subdlvlrloa and to a8c8rtaln the aqmber oi qunllfied
voter8 signing the sama.
75
m HJ Of 8U&6.8tiOa, TO k1i.V. -t th. 8OuOtf 8Urk.
-7, by obokl4 the oortifiadli8tr of qmllflad rotor8 for &ha
two VOtlll#b-8 Of th. oit7 Or OOWOO for tb u8t 6OWNl e&O-
lt uhloh
;$ tt tU ?W8idOnttil l&OtW8 WI’@.&8tOd lti llirla-
the Vot4S @48t b7 glr8Oo, ?O8id1 OUt8m Or tb 8OrpOmtO
bo Ier OS Uomoe, lo*rWIm tb 8 Of vOt.8 Oa8t by
8ODI rUridi4 Uithilr tb .Ommt. bOrudulO# Ot haZOO at
tiu 0r 8kt0h lk0ti0a.
%a think that the ten ‘qumlirlea voter’ a. mod
ita Artid 666-32,8wO W-8 thO8. rho We Wliitid
t0 vOt0, wr tb O0lMtftlltloP &id 8tOtUtOB 08 thl8
tow8 vmry trel7
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