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BAZEMORE v. BERTIE COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTIONS

No. 168.

119 S.E.2d 637 (1961)

254 N.C. 398

Nancy BAZEMORE v. BERTIE COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTIONS.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

April 12, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James R. Walker, Jr., Weldon, Samuel S. Mitchell, Raleigh, and Robert L. Harrell, Sr., Ahoskie, for plaintiff.

John R. Jenkins, Jr., Aulander, and Pritchett & Cooke, Windsor, for defendant.

T. W. Bruton, Atty. Gen., and Ralph Moody, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State of North Carolina, amicus curiae.

MOORE, Justice.

It is undisputed that the States have broad powers to determine the conditions under which the right of suffrage may be exercised. Pope v. Williams, 1903, 193 U.S. 621, 632, 24 S.Ct. 573, 48 L.Ed. 817; Mason v. State of Missouri, 1900, 179 U.S. 328, 335, 21 S.Ct. 125, 45 L.Ed. 214. The right of suffrage is not a necessary attribute of citizenship. The right to vote in the States comes...

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