Mississippi Advisory Opinions June 20, 1983: 19830620 (June 20, 1983)

Advisory Opinion Text

Mr. Wallace Gray, Jr.

Circuit Clerk of Noxubee County

505 South Jefferson Street

Macon, Mississippi 39341

Dear Mr. Gray:

Attorney General Bill Allain has received your opinion request dated June 10, 1983, and has assigned it to me for research and reply, your letter of request stating:

“A candidate signed an affidavit to run in the democratic primary but he failed to pay the filing fee. He now wants to run as an independent in the November General Election. My question is: Is this man eligible to run as an independent?”

For guidance, we attach a copy of Mississippi State Board of Election Commissioners v. Meredith , 301 So.2d 571 (Miss. 1974) and direct your attention particularly to the controlling majority opinion.

Yours very truly,

Bill Allain, Attorney General.