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KAMINS v. BOARD OF ELECTIONS, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

No. 7288.

324 A.2d 187 (1974)

Laurence R. KAMINS, Appellant, v. BOARD OF ELECTIONS FOR the DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA et al., Appellees.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided August 13, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Laurence R. Kamins, pro se.

Earl A. Gershenow, Asst. Corp. Counsel, Washington, D. C., with whom C. Francis Murphy, Corp. Counsel, and Richard W. Barton, Asst. Corp. Counsel, Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellees.

Before KERN, GALLAGHER and PAIR, Associate Judges.

GALLAGHER, Associate Judge:

The question presented by this case is whether the Board of Elections of the District of Columbia (the Board) should have refused to count a write-in vote cast in the 1972 Presidential and Vice-Presidential election. For reasons which will hereinafter appear we hold that the Board should have counted such votes.

I

In August, 1972, Anton Wood, Treasurer of the D.C. Statehood Party, wrote the Board and requested that it...

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