Legal Opinion
Scolaro v. District of Columbia Board of Elections & Ethics
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided March 20, 1997No. 96-AA-1738PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FERREN, Associate Judge:
This case began with a student-community struggle over available parking places. It concerns the resulting desires of large numbers of Georgetown University students to *79vote in local Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC) elections, and the corresponding efforts of many Georgetown community residents to stop them from doing so, on the ground that the students really reside elsewhere and thus are not “qualified electors” entitled to vote here. The Board of Elections and Ethics accepted large numbers of student voter applications based on each student’s signature on the…
2Cases cited26 opinions
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- Lloyd v. BabbSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1979
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