EUWEMA v. TODMAN

Civ. No. 410/1970.

323 F.Supp. 167 (1971)

Roland EUWEMA, St. Thomas, V. I. and Julie Kean, St. Thomas, V. I. and Idalia Connor, St. Thomas, V. I. and Virginia Bergan, St. Thomas, V. I. and Donna Sargeant, St. Croix, V. I. and Vincent Hoover Adams Gordon, St. Croix, V. I., Plaintiffs, v. Henrita TODMAN, Supervisor of Elections, No. 3 Crystal Gade, St. Thomas, U. S. Virgin Islands and Ulla S. Muller, Chairman, et al., and Peter J. O'Dea, Attorney General of the Virgin Islands, Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, Defendants.

District Court Virgin Islands, D. St. Croix.

March 3, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hodge & Sheen, Albert A. Sheen, Christiansted, St. Croix, V. I., of counsel, for plaintiffs.

Irwin J. Silverlight, Asst. Atty. Gen., St. Thomas, V. I., for defendants.


ACTION IN THE NATURE OF MANDAMUS AND DECLARATORY JUDGMENT

OPINION

CHRISTIAN, Chief Judge.

The question here presented is not whether as a matter of policy or justice the franchise should be extended to persons eighteen years of age or older. Nor is it, properly stated, whether a blank ballot should be tallied as an affirmative or a negative vote on a given proposition. Precisely at issue is whether under Act

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