Victor Underwood and Carmen Edwards, for Themselves and All Others Similarly Situated v. Nell Hunter

VANCE, Circuit Judge:

In 1977 and 1978 the boards of registrars for Montgomery and Jefferson Counties in Alabama barred Carmen Edwards and Victor Underwood, respectively, from representation on the election rolls. They were denied voting privileges under section 182 of the Alabama Constitution, adopted in 1901, which disfranchises those convicted of crimes punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary, crimes of moral turpitude and other enumerated misdemeanors and felonies. 1 Edwards and Underwood were disfranchised for presenting worthless checks, a misdemeanor which the registrars classify…