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FEDERAL ELECTION COM'N v. HALL-TYNER, ETC.

No. 963, Docket 81-6229.

678 F.2d 416 (1982)

FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. HALL-TYNER ELECTION CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided May 6, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard B. Bader, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Federal Election Commission, Washington, D. C. (Charles N. Steele, Jeffrey H. Bowman, Miriam Aguiar, Washington, D. C., of counsel), for plaintiff-appellant.

John J. Abt, New York City (Jeffrey Schwartz, New York City, of counsel), for defendants-appellees.

Victor Rabinowitz, Rabinowitz, Boudin, Standard, Krinsky & Lieberman, New York City, for amicus curiae National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee.

Arthur Eisenberg, New York City, Joel Gora, Brooklyn, N. Y., for amicus curiae New York Civil Liberties Union.

Before KAUFMAN, VAN GRAAFEILAND, Circuit Judges, and LOWE, District Judge.

IRVING R. KAUFMAN, Circuit Judge:

Anonymity has long been essential to uninhibited political activity in a democratic society. The secret ballot ensures that no one must answer for the vote he casts. Confidentiality prevents the apprehension of reprisal that threatens to suppress the robust interchange of ideas at the core of the First Amendment's guarantee of free speech and protection of privacy in association. A society confident in its stability does not fear...

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