Moore v. Osser’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
2
states following
September 2005
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Hamilton's Nomination Papers · Lavery's Nomination Papers
Most-quoted passages
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““It is clear, however, that this phrase was necessary to particularize which electoral district was referred to by the words ‘last preceding election.’ Within this Commonwealth there is a multiplicity of overlapping electoral districts. Assume, for example, that in Philadelphia a councilmanic district is composed of wards #1 and #2, although a magistrate is elected solely by ward #1; that in 1963 ward #1 elected a magistrate as well as a councilman in conjunction with ward #2; and that there were no other elections during the period of 1963-67. The phrase in dispute makes it clear that, when magistrates are to be again elected in 1967, the proper total vote to use as a base would be that cast for magistrate even though the total vote cast by the voters in ward #1 for councilman might be greater, for only as to the magisterial election did the ward #1 voters elect a candidate for ‘said electoral district for which said nomination papers are to be filed.’””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In the case of all other nominations, the number of qualified electors of the electoral district signing such nomination papers shall be at least equal to two per centum of the largest entire vote cast for any officer, except a judge of a court of record, elected at the last preceding election in said electoral district for which said nomination papers are to be filed, and shall be not less than the number of signers required for nomination petitions for party candidates for the same office. (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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