Allen v. Gleason’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. “"It is a universal rule in this country that the validity of an election contest as well as the machinery controlling such elections presents political rather than judicial questions, in the absence of an express constitutional or statutory provision granting to the courts jurisdiction over the controversy. In conformity with the mandate of the Constitution of this State the Legislature adopted its Act 46 of 1940, the provisions of which were incorporated substantially in their original form in the Revised Statutes of 1950 as R.S. 18:281 et seq., and the procedures therein contained are sui generis. . ." (Emphasis added.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 382 So. 2d 169 - Fitzmorris v. Lambert