Morgan v. Dudley’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. ““Whilst it is admitted to be essential to the just right of electors and also of candidates, that the right of suffrage should be freely exercised by the qualified voter, it is equally essential that those who are called by their official duty to preside at elections, and to decide on the qualifications of voters, should be sustained and encouraged, in the faithful and conscientious discharge of their duty. “No action ought then, in principle, to be maintainable against the judges of an election, whose functions are to some extent judicial, for refusing to receive a vote, without alleging and proving that in so acting they were influenced by bad motives, and decided contrary to their own honest convictions of what was right and proper.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Reynolds v. Perkins