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DIXON v. MD. STATE ADMINISTRATIVE ELECTION LAWS

No. 88-1735.

878 F.2d 776 (1989)

Reba Williams DIXON; Dana Burroughs; Edwin B. Fruit; Margaret Mary Kreiner, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. MARYLAND STATE ADMINISTRATIVE BOARD OF ELECTION LAWS; James W. Johnson, Jr., Margarette E. Crowder, Solomon N. Hoke, Barbara B. Kendall, Peggy Rae Pavlat, as members of the Board; Gene M. Raynor, as the State Administrator of Election Laws; Baltimore City Board of Supervisors of Elections; Carl M. Adair, Marvin L. Cheatham, Eugene Cone, as members of the Board, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided June 28, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank Montgomery Dunbaugh, Washington, D.C. (Susan Goering, Legal Director, Baltimore, Md., ACLU of Maryland, on brief), for plaintiffs-appellants.

Jack Schwartz, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., Baltimore, Md., on brief), for defendants-appellees.

Before WINTER, HALL and PHILLIPS, Circuit Judges.

HARRISON L. WINTER, Circuit Judge:

In this case plaintiffs — candidates for office and voters in a Baltimore City election — challenge provisions of Maryland's general election laws. The challenged laws require that non-indigent write-in candidates for certain Baltimore City offices file certificates of candidacy and pay a filing fee of $150 in order to become "official" candidates and to have the votes cast for them reported publicly. The principal...

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