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Abstract
Pursuant to statutory provisions the fiscal court of Jefferson County, Kentucky, appropriated $1,000 for renting voting machines to be used in the general election of 1938. The county on relation of its attorneys filed suit for a declaratory judgment on the constitutionality of the statute. The relators appealed from a judgment declaring the act valid. Held, the statute authorizing the use of voting machines in popular elections is a violation of section 147 of the Kentucky Constitution which provides for a "secret official ballot, furnished by public authority to the voters at the polls, and marked by each voter in private at the polls, and then and there deposited." Jefferson County ex rel. Grauman v. Jefferson County Fiscal Court, 273 Ky. 674, 117 S. W. (2d) 918 at 920 (1938).
Recommended Citation
Michigan Law Review,
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW - VALIDITY OF VOTING MACHINE IN GENERAL ELECTION - CONSTITUTIONAL CONSTRUCTION,
37
Mich. L. Rev.
1317
(1939).
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