Bridges v. McCorvey’s Empirical Analysis

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17 state decisions

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1. ““Whereas, the final returns from the Democratic Primary Election held May 2, 1950, show that Neil O. Davis, Jack M. Bridges, W. L. Horn and Grover C. Hughes and each of them were duly elected as members of the State Democratic Executive Committee of Alabama from the Third Congressional District of Alabama for the term beginning on Monday, January 15, 1951; and “Whereas, on January 3, 1951, a subcommittee of the State Democratic Executive Committee of Alabama rendered its finding and judgment that the said four named members and each of them were not duly and legally elected to such membership; and “Whereas, it has been proved- to this Committee that the finding of said subcommittee was arrived at by a majority of -one or a vote of three to two, and that there was no evidence to support said findings and that said subcommittee misapplied the law to the facts; that said subcommittee actually counted less than 2500 ballots cast in said primary election for the office of member of said State Democratic Executive Committee of Alabama from the Third Congressional District; that no fraud, corruption or crookedness in said election were proved, to said subcommittee and that there has been no evidence of any such; that the conclusion of said subcommittee and its finding and judgment would result in destroying the sanctity of the ballot and in disfranchising the voters of the Third Congressional District of Alabama ; that such conclusion, finding and judgment is not final and binding a”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Prather v. Ray

2. ““Now, therefore, I, the undersigned Gessner T. McCorvey, as Chairman of the State Democratic Executive Committee of Alabama, do hereby set and appoint Monday, the 12th day of June, 1950, at 10:00 o’clock A. M., as the date for the hearing of the said contest. “And I, the undersigned Gessner T. McCorvey, as Chairman of the State Democratic Executive Committee of Alabama, do, under the authority vested in me by law, and by resolutions of the State Democratic Executive Committee of Alabama, hereby name and appoint a Sub-Committee of five, consisting of H. M. Abercrombie, of Birmingham, Alabama, from the 9th Congressional District, as Chairman; William E. Johnston, of Mobile, Alabama, from the First Congressional District; H. Coleman Long, of Union-town, Alabama, from the Sixth Congressional District; J. Herbert Meighan, of Gadsden, Alabama, from the First Congressional District; and Frank J. Mizell, Jr., of Montgomery, Alabama, from the Second Congres sional District; all of whom are members of the said State Democratic Executive Committee of Alabama, to hear and decide the said contest; and I do hereby authorize and empower the said Sub-Committee to have and exercise, and it shall have and exercise, all of .the power and authority given to, or possessed by, the State Democratic Executive Committee of Alabama to hear such contest and decide the same; and I do delegate to and confer upon such Sub-Committee the right, power and authority to do and perform any act or thing in conne”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Prather v. Ray

3. ““The state executive committee of any party shall have the right, power and authority to appoint, or to authorize and empower the chairman thereof to appoint, from time to time, a subcommittee, or sub-committees, to look after, supervise and conduct primary elections under this chapter, receive returns from, and canvass and tabulate and declare the results of, and certify to, any primary election held under this chapter, to hear, consider and decide any contest of any election or of the nomination of any candidate in any election held under this chapter, and generally to delegate to and confer upon such sub-committee the right, power, and authority to do and perform any act or thing which said state executive committee could do or perform and the chairman of such sub-committee or sub-committees shall also have and be authorized to perform any act, and exercise any power or authority which the chairman of the state executive committee has or could exercise under this chapter.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Prather v. Ray