Anderson

The petition for an alternative writ of mandate is denied. Petitioners are 12 persons residing in California, some of them in the City and County of San Francisco and others in the County of Los Angeles. They seek writ of mandate to compel the registrars of voters in places of their residence to refrain from enforcing the one-year residency requirement of section 1, article II of the Constitution of California, and to register petitioners as voters qualified to vote in the general election on November 3, 1970. They assert that they bring the proceeding also for the benefit of all other citizens of the United States who are over the age of 21 and who will have been residents of the county in which they wish to register for at least 90 days and of the precinct in which they wish to register at least 54 days prior to the election, but who will not have been residents of the State of California for one year prior to the election.

The petition was filed with the clerk of the Supreme Court of this state on September 11, 1970, and was immediately assigned by the Supreme Court to this court. Although we issued an alternative writ of mandate in another case in which challenge was…