White v. Commissioners of Multnomah County
Oregon Supreme Court
Multnomah County. Plaintiff appeals. The registry provided for can confer no constitutional right upon the elector, and it is only the evidence of the possession of such right. No act can legally provide that this shall be the only evidence of that right, or that the evidence or proof of the right to vote can only be offered during a limited and arbitrary time, many months or weeks preceding the day when this constitutional right is to be exercised.
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Multnomah County. Plaintiff appeals. The registry provided for can confer no constitutional right upon the elector, and it is only the evidence of the possession of such right. No act can legally provide that this shall be the only evidence of that right, or that the evidence or proof of the right to vote can only be offered during a limited and arbitrary time, many months or weeks preceding the day when this constitutional right is to be exercised. (Commonwealth v. Maxwell, 27 Pa. St. 444; Page v. Allen, 58 Id. 351; Patterson v. Barlow, 60 Id. 54 — see dissenting opinion, Judges Sharswood…
1Opinion of the CourtWaldo, C. J.
This suit is brought to determine the constitutionality of the late act providing for the registration of voters. The constitution of Oregon (art. 2, sec. 2) provides:
“In all elections not otherwise provided for by this constitution, every white male citizen of the United States of the age of twenty-one years and upwards who shall have resided in the state during the six months immediately preceding such election, and every white male of foreign birth of the age- of twenty-one years and upwards who shall have resided in this state during the six months immediately preceding such election, and…
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