Legal Opinion
Munro v. Socialist Workers Party
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided December 10, 1986No. 85-656PublishedCited by 408 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice White
The State of Washington requires that a minor-party candidate for partisan office receive at least 1% of all votes cast for that office in the State’s primary election before the candidate’s name will be placed on the general election ballot. The question for decision is whether this statutory require*191ment, as applied to candidates for statewide offices, violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. The Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit declared the provision unconstitutional. 765 F. 2d 1417 (1985). We reverse.
In 1977, the State of Washington enacted…
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