Chase v. Burns

Barbara S. Chase and Janet C. Springer, vice president and secretary, respectively, of the League of Women Voters of the town of Cumberland, commenced this civil action in the Superior Court against the Secretary of State and the chairman of the State Board of Elections. They seek a declaration that P. L. 1974, ch. 277, 1 violates the tenth 2 and thirty-eighth 3 amendments to the state constitution and the due process and equal protection clauses of the fourteenth amendment to the Federal Constitution. The contested enactment provides that starting in 1974, and biennially thereafter, the…