Bowden

Petition for writ of mandate against the Registrar of Voters of the County of Los Angeles, directing said officer to strike from the files of his office the names of twenty-seven persons, each of whom has filed in the office of said registrar his or her declaration of intention to become a candidate for the office of superior judge in and for said county, and to restrain said registrar from placing the names of said persons on the official primary ballot as candidates for the office of superior judge at the coming August primary election to be held in said county. Each of said declarations of intention was filed in the office of said registrar on the twenty-sixth day of May, 1934. It is the contention of the petitioner that the last day on *140 which such declarations could by law be filed was the twenty-fifth day of May, 1934, and that as said declarations of intention were filed one day too late, it is the duty of said registrar to strike the same from the files of his office.

In the county of Los Angeles two or more judges of the superior court are to be elected for the same term during the year 1934. By section 2 of chapter 316, Statutes of 1927, page 528 (Deéring’s Gen.…