# Arthur v. Payne County Election Board

> Supreme Court of Oklahoma · August 4, 1998 · 69 O.B.A.J. 2887

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/5167037

## Case

- **Full name:** Jim ARTHUR, candidate for Payne County Commissioner, District 3 v. PAYNE COUNTY ELECTION BOARD, Jerry Rackley, Chairman, and Rex Holland, Vice-Chairman
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Oklahoma
- **Decided:** August 4, 1998
- **Citations:** 69 O.B.A.J. 2887; 964 P.2d 213; 1998 OK 86; 1998 Okla. LEXIS 95; 1998 WL 437286
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence
- **Judges:** Hargrave, Hodges, Kauger, Lavender, Simms, Summers, Watt, Wilson
- **Cited by:** 0 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

¶ 17
0PA1A, Justice,
concurring.
One’s status as an elector can neither be destroyed nor impaired by a mistake of the government. No official agency’s error will confer public rights upon a person who, at a maximum, may claim to be its incidental beneficiary. See in this connection Burdick v. Independent School Dist., 1985 OK 49 , 702 P.2d 48, 55-56 .
¶ 18 SIMMS and WILSON, JJ., absent. 1

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