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VINTSON v. ANTON

No. 84-7776.

786 F.2d 1023 (1986)

Howard VINTSON, Individually and as Chairman of the Walker County Republican Executive Committee; Leonard Wilson, Individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated; and Joan Pile, Individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Sylvester ANTON; Stanley Wade; and Joel Robinson, Individually and as Members of the Appointing Board of Walker County, Alabama; and Walker County, a political subdivision of the State of Alabama, Defendants-Appellees, Woodrow Wyers, Sr., and Steve Adkins, individually and on behalf of all persons who may be nominated by the Walker County Democratic Executive Committee Chairman as election officials, Defendants-Intervenors.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

April 14, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Albert L. Jordan, Fitzpatrick & Jordan and Raymond Fitzpatrick, Birmingham, Ala., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Edward Still and Susan Williams Reeves, Birmingham, Ala., for defendants-appellees.

Before TJOFLAT and KRAVITCH, Circuit Judges, and DUMBAULD, Senior District Judge.

DUMBAULD, Senior District Judge:

Appellants' "beef"1 or grievance in the case at bar is that one of them (Joan Pile) and a number of other Republicans were not appointed as election officials at their voting precincts in Walker County, Alabama for the election of November 2, 1982.2

Violation is alleged of the guarantee to every State of "a Republican Form of

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