2002, orig. proceeding) (noting, in discussing whether petitions defective for not including certain information, that “[t]he signatures on Morales’ and on Vera’s petitions could be readily verified by checking the voter registration records for Dawson County”). Once Peoples had obtained such conclusive, public-record evidence of the invalidity of the signatures, she had a ministerial duty to reject the application. See Tex. Elec.Code Ann. § 141.065(b); cf. Tex. Elec.Code Ann. § 145.003(f)(2) (West 2010) (providing candidate may not be certified for placement on ballot if facts indicating ineligibility are conclusively established by another public record); Hayes v. Harris Cnty. Democratic Exec. Comm., 563 S.W.2d 884, 885 (Tex.Civ.App.-Houston [14th Dist.] 1978, orig. proceeding) (<HOLDING>). Accordingly, we deny the petition for writ of
holding that any impairment of candidates and voters first amendment interests was not sufficiently grievous to invalidate louisiana statute requiring judge to resign office before becoming candidate for nonjudicial office recognizing that a prosecutors office is an entity and that information in the possession of one attorney in the office must be attributed to the office as a whole recognizing a nonresident who receives the most votes for elected office does not hold the office but not discussing the de facto officer doctrine holding chair has ministerial duty not to certify candidate if another public record conclusively proves facts showing ineligibility to hold office holding that the governor did not have to obtain the consent of the senate for the appointment of a candidate when the first candidate had been rejected by the senate the senate was not in session at the time that the second candidate was appointed and because the legislature which created and therefore controlled the office did not require by statute that the governor seek the senates approval in those circumstances