Texas Supreme Court
A. J. (Archie) Wood v. State of Texas Ex Rel. Claude A. Lee.
March 22, 1939133 Tex. 110
Summary
The Texas Supreme Court held that the voting machines used in the Gladewater mayoral election were constitutional and that absentee ballots are valid even if the voter was not physically absent on election day. Accordingly, the judgments removing Wood and installing Lee were reversed and the case remanded.