438 So. 2d 550 - Nicholson v. Grisaffe’s Empirical Analysis

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7 state decisions

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1. “However, at the next regular election for members of the legislature following legislative reapportionment, an elector may qualify as a candidate from any district created in whole or in part from a district existing prior to reapportionment if he was domiciled in that prior district for at least one year immediately preceding his qualification and was a resident of the state for the two years preceding his qualification. The seat of any member who changes his domicile from the district he represents or, if elected after reapportionment, whose domicile is not within the district he represents at the time he is sworn into office, shall be vacated thereby, any declaration of retention of domicile to the contrary notwithstanding.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Thomas v. James

2. “Election contests must be filed, tried, decided, appealed, and adjudicated with finality in a brief period of time, so as to facilitate preparation of the ballots and voting machines in the time span between the end of the qualifying period and the beginning of absentee voting. Time restraints and special procedural laws control the litigation from beginning to end.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. 41 So. 3d 1287 - Scaglione v. Juneau

3. “Members of police juries shall possess the same qualifications at the time of their election as members of the house of representatives * * *.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 587 So. 2d 712 - Brien v. Giardina