Electorality - Judgment Search Results

Rogers Vs. Lodge

Court: US Supreme Court

..... in a particular way the constitution would simply protect a right to have an electoral machinery established and maintained without the influence of impermissible factors constitutional challenges to ..... involved in this case prohibitions against cumulative or partial voting are generally inapplicable in electoral schemes involving numbered posts footnote 2 19 during its evolution as a progressive .....

City of Port Arthur Vs. United States

Court: US Supreme Court

..... community eliminating the majority vote requirement was an understandable adjustment and even if the electoral scheme might otherwise be said to reflect the political strength of the minority community ..... annexation could nevertheless be approved but only on the condition that modifications in the electoral plan calculated to neutralize to the extent possible any adverse effect upon the political .....

Rodriguez Vs. Popular Democratic Party

Court: US Supreme Court

..... stability and continuity of the legislative balance until the next general election protecting the electoral mandate of the previous election and reducing inter partisan political campaigns to once every ..... legislative offices therefore must be filled by a special election open to all qualified electors not by interim appointment of any kind alternatively appellants maintain that even if legislative .....

Washington Vs. Seattle Sch. Dist. No. 1

Court: US Supreme Court

..... attempted to rescind the seattle plan here however a different governmental body the state wide electorate rescinded a policy voluntarily enacted by locally elected school boards already subject to local ..... of the existing ordinance forbidding housing discrimination but also required the approval of the electors before any future antidiscrimination ordinance could take effect 393 u s at 393 u .....

Fec Vs. National Right to Work Comm.

Court: US Supreme Court

..... elections the section however permits some participation by unions and corporations in the federal electoral process by allowing these organizations to establish and pay the expenses of separate segregated ..... 441b the provision marks the culmination of a careful legislative adjustment of the federal electoral laws to prevent both actual and apparent corruption and reflects a legislative judgment that .....

Brown Vs. Hartlage

Court: US Supreme Court

..... discretionary authority to balance the gravity of the violation against the disenfranchisement of the electorate that would result from declaring the election void ibid with respect to brown s ..... that candidates have the unfettered opportunity to make their views known so that the electorate may intelligently evaluate the candidates personal qualities and their positions on vital public issues .....

Nagendra Nath Singh Vs. State of U.P. and ors.

Court: Allahabad

Reported in: AIR1982All226

..... by the state instead of co option any change in the electorate entitled to vote for election for the legislative council has ..... the state legislature had the power to change qualifications of the electorate for the purposes of electing the members of the municipal ..... the state legislature if that was so it logically follows that electorates who would be entitled to participate in electing their members .....

Crawford Vs. Los Angeles Board of Educ.

Court: US Supreme Court

..... conclusion in seattle followed inexorably from these considerations in that case the statewide electorate reallocated decisionmaking authority to mak e it more difficult for certain racial and ..... reallocated power from local school boards to the state legislature or the statewide electorate after the enactment of initiative 350 local school boards continued to exercise considerable .....

Jyoti Basu and ors. Vs. Debi Ghosal and ors.

Court: Supreme Court of India

Reported in: AIR1982SC983; 1982(1)SCALE115; (1982)1SCC691; [1982]3SCR318; 1982(14)LC186(SC)

..... the minister of the legislative and the judicial department as the ninth respondent and the electoral registration officer as the tenth respondent it was averred in the election petition that the ..... and the legislatures of states the qualification of voters at such elections the preparation of electoral rolls and other matters connected therewith 6 last the representation of the people act of .....

Zandala Seva Sahakari Mandali Ltd. and ors. Vs. B. Narsinhaman and ors ...

Court: Gujarat

Reported in: AIR1983Guj54; (1983)1GLR475

..... can get elected to the market committee from the said constituency and for that electoral college consists of representatives of marketing committees of co operative societies dispensing agricultural credit ..... the election from that constituency an agriculturist even though not a member of the electorate and therefore not a voter in the agriculturists constituency can contest 1he election from .....