Hamer v. Ely’s Empirical Analysis
410 F.2d 152 · 1969
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently May 2017
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Illinois Power Co. v. Local Union No. 51, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers · Louisiana v. United States · Bell v. Southwell · Hamer v. Campbell · United States v. State of Louisiana
Most-quoted passages
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“`* * * the duty and responsibility of the precinct officials at each election to provide to each illiterate voter who may request it such reasonable assistance as may be necessary to permit such voter to cast his ballot in accordance with the voter's own decision.' United States v. State of Mississippi, S.D. Mississippi 1966, 256 F. Supp. 344, 349 . The appellants' position, then, is that the use of only white poll assisters was not `reasonable assistance' in the circumstances prevailing at the Sunflower election. The Sunflower election was governed by the Declaratory Judgment entered in the case of United States v. State of Mississippi, supra, and not by any Mississippi statute. The Mississippi statute dealing with poll assistance was repealed in 1965. ..... The action of the Sunflower Election Commissioners, however, was in compliance with the statute as it stood before its repeal. In light of the order in United States v. State of Louisiana, supra , which was tailored to the precise terms of a repealed Louisiana voter assistance statute, the action of the Election Commissioners in the present case, tailored to the terms of a repealed Mississippi statute, would appear to be reasonable. Voters may be motivated by reasons other than fear for not seeking voter assistance, and they have at their disposal a variety of measures to cast their votes without it. Thus, in United States v. State of Louisiana, E.D. Louisiana, 265 F. Supp. 703, 715 , the court said: There are varying de”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The terms `vote' or `voting' shall include all action necessary to make a vote effective in any primary, special, or general election, including, but not limited to, registration, listing pursuant to this subchapter, or other action required by law prerequisite to voting, casting a ballot, and having such ballot counted properly and included in the appropriate totals of votes cast with respect to candidates for public or party office and propositions for which votes are received in an election.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he attitude of Sunflower’s Election Commissioners may have been shoddy, but it does not justify ... voiding a state election.”); Putter, 697 A.2d at 359 (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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