DANE v. BOARD OF REGISTRARS OF VOTERS OF CONCORD


374 Mass. 152 (1978)

371 N.E.2d 1358

HENRY J. DANE vs. BOARD OF REGISTRARS OF VOTERS OF CONCORD & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk..

January 5, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Henry J. Dane, pro se.

Anne Hoffman for the inmates of the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Concord.

John S. Grace, for the Secretary of the Commonwealth, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., QUIRICO, BRAUCHER, & ABRAMS, JJ.


QUIRICO, J.

The plaintiff Henry J. Dane, a registered voter in the town of Concord (town), by this action seeks declaratory and injunctive relief against the defendant board of registrars of voters of Concord (registrars). The plaintiff questions the validity of the action of the registrars in accepting affidavits of registration and registering to vote approximately 300 individual defendants (inmates) who were imprisoned at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution...

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