VOORHES v. DEMPSEY

No. 10462.

231 F.Supp. 975 (1964)

Avis B. VOORHES, William G. Voorhes and Rudolph Presutti on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. John DEMPSEY, Governor of the State of Connecticut, and Ella T. Grasso, Secretary of the State of Connecticut, Defendants.

United States District Court D. Connecticut.

June 22, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Igor I. Sikorsky, Jr., Richard M. Rittenband, Hartford, Conn., for plaintiffs.

Harold M. Mulvey, Atty. Gen. of Connecticut, Raymond J. Cannon, Asst. Atty. Gen., for defendants.

Before SMITH, Circuit Judge, and ANDERSON and BLUMENFELD, District Judges.


PER CURIAM.

Three Connecticut voters, on behalf of themselves and others similarly situated, bring this action under the Civil Rights Acts, 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983 and 1988, and 28 U.S.C. § 1343, to enjoin the operation of Connecticut voting machines equipped with a mandatory party lever and to have Section 9-242 of the Connecticut General Statutes (1958 Rev.), which requires that the machines be so equipped, declared unconstitutional. The defendants, the...

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