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Texas Constitution:Article VI, Section 2 (view source)
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* ''Mills v. Bartlett'', 377 S.W.2d 636, [https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=12119046495831052383#p637 637-38] (Tex. 1964) ("In ''Linger v. Balfour'', Tex.Civ.App., 149 S.W. 795, no writ history, the question was raised as to whether Atkinson, a single man, had resided in Oldham County for the last preceding six months preceding the election so as to qualify him as a voter. He was a native of Milam County and a student. During vacation time he came to Vega and declared his intention of becoming a resident of that community. . . . At the time of the general election he returned to Vega for the purpose of voting. The Court of Civil Appeals went so far as to hold that even under those circumstances he was a resident of Oldham County and qualified to vote.") | * ''Mills v. Bartlett'', 377 S.W.2d 636, [https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=12119046495831052383#p637 637-38] (Tex. 1964) ("In ''Linger v. Balfour'', Tex.Civ.App., 149 S.W. 795, no writ history, the question was raised as to whether Atkinson, a single man, had resided in Oldham County for the last preceding six months preceding the election so as to qualify him as a voter. He was a native of Milam County and a student. During vacation time he came to Vega and declared his intention of becoming a resident of that community. . . . At the time of the general election he returned to Vega for the purpose of voting. The Court of Civil Appeals went so far as to hold that even under those circumstances he was a resident of Oldham County and qualified to vote.") | ||
* ''Koy v. Schneider'', 218 S.W. 479, [https://texaslegalguide.com/images/218_SW_479.pdf#page= | * ''Koy v. Schneider'', 218 S.W. 479, [https://texaslegalguide.com/images/218_SW_479.pdf#page=5 483] (Tex. 1920) ("We do not regard the proceedings of the constitutional convention relative to woman suffrage as bearing on the right of women to participate in primaries under an act of the Legislature. Such proceedings related only to the participation of women in governmental elections and not to their participation in the acts of any nongovernmental, voluntary groups of citizens, clothed with no ultimate power to fill constitutional or other offices, to amend Constitutions, or to impose tax burdens. . . . We answer, 'No,' to the certified question, having determined that there is no conflict between the legislative act and section 2 of article 6 of the Constitution.") | ||
* ''Waples v. Marrast'', 184 S.W. 180, 183 (Tex. 1916) ("A political party is nothing more or less than a body of men associated for purpose of . . . . The purpose of their primary elections is merely to enable them to furnish their nominees as candidates for the popular suffrage. In the interest of fair methods and a fair expression by their members of their preference in the selection of their nominees, the State may regulate such elections by proper laws, as it has done in our general primary law, and as it was competent for the Legislature to do by a proper act of the character of the one here under review. But the payment of the expenses of purely party elections is a different matter.") | * ''Waples v. Marrast'', 184 S.W. 180, 183 (Tex. 1916) ("A political party is nothing more or less than a body of men associated for purpose of . . . . The purpose of their primary elections is merely to enable them to furnish their nominees as candidates for the popular suffrage. In the interest of fair methods and a fair expression by their members of their preference in the selection of their nominees, the State may regulate such elections by proper laws, as it has done in our general primary law, and as it was competent for the Legislature to do by a proper act of the character of the one here under review. But the payment of the expenses of purely party elections is a different matter.") | ||