Fontham v. McKeithen’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. “Every citizen of the United States and of Louisiana, native born or naturalized, who is twenty-one years of age or who will have attained the age of twenty-one years prior to the next election and who possesses the following qualifications and who has complied with the provisions of this Chapter, shall be eligible for registration as a voter: (1) He shall have been an actual bona fide resident of the state for one year, of the parish for six months, and of the municipality in municipal elections four months, and of the precinct in which he offers to register as a voter, three months next preceding any election.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. 396 F. Supp. 808 - Walters v. Edwards

2. “"... none of the cases holding that the rational relation test should apply to durational residency requirements ... provides any cogent rationale to support its conclusion that there are two classes of voter eligibility standards: those which must be examined by the compelling interest test under the Equal Protection Clause and those which need be tested only by the rational relation standard." 336 F.Supp. at 164.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Woodsum v. Boyd

3. “[t]here is no federal constitutional right to vote in State and local elections”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Young v. Red Clay Consolidated School District