Sylvestre v. St. Landry Parish School Board

I respectfully dissent from the majority opinion and decree which, in effect, maintains that section 12 of the Act 46 of 1921, providing that the governing authority of the taxing district “shall designate the polling placas,” has done away with the requirement in sections 1 and 3 of article 8 of the Constitution that the residence qualifications of a taxpayer as a voter in' a special tax or bond election shall be that he shall have been an actual bona fide resident of the state for two years, of the parish for one year, and of the voting precinct, in which he offers to vote, for three months…