CLARK v. MEYLAND

No. 601.

134 S.E.2d 168 (1964)

261 N.C. 140

Blake C. CLARK v. A. L. MEYLAND, Chairman Guilford County Board of Elections, Fred M. Upchurch and Arthur Utley, Members of The Guilford County Board of Elections, and Margaret Schecter, Secretary of the Guilford County Board of Elections.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

January 19, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William L. Osteen, J. Halbert Conoly, Charles E. Dameron, III, Jordan J. Frassineti, Greensboro, for plaintiff appellant.

Durwood S. Jones, Greensboro, for defendant appellees.

T. W. Bruton, Atty. Gen., James F. Bullock, Asst. Atty. Gen., amicus curiae.


HIGGINS, Justice.

In this case the plaintiff, a registered Democrat, sought to change his party affiliation and to qualify himself to vote in the Republican Primary. The election officials, as a condition precedent to the change, demanded that he take the oath prescribed by G.S. § 163-50, as follows:

"I, ____, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I desire in good faith to change my party affiliation from the ______ party to the ______ party, and that such...

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