State ex rel. Mullen v. Howell

Citations

• 108 Wash. 340
• 184 P. 333

Syllabus

<p>Statutes (2-4)—Initiative and Referendum — Who Are “Legal Voters.” Under Rem. Code, § 4971-12, providing for the certification of the- signatures of legal voters upon initiative and referendum petitions, “legal voters” include only persons having the constitutional qualifications who are registered upon the poll hooks and not cancelled by failure to vote; in view of Const., art. 6, §7, authorizing a registration law, and Rem. Code, § 4771-2 enacted pursuant thereto, which provides that, in cities where registration is required, citizens are not entitled to vote if unregistered, or if, having been registered, they suffered their names to he cancelled by failure to vote.</p>