Newman v. City of Baton Rouge

COVINGTON and LOTTINGER, Judges,

dissenting.

In Rich v. Martin, 259 So.2d 113 (La.App. 1st Cir. 1971), writ refused 261 La. 313, 259 So.2d 336 (1971), and reaffirmed in McCarter v. Broom, 377 So.2d 383 (La.App. 1st Cir. 1979), writ refused October 9, 1979, this Court said:

“The basic policy of our form of government requires that laws governing the conduct of elections be liberally interpreted to promote rather than defeat candidacy.”

Because of the delay of the Justice Department, acting under the authority of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, in promptly giving its approval to the proposed…