Rosario v. Rockefeller

LUMBARD, Circuit Judge:

Defendants below, New York State officials charged with enforcing section 186 of the New York Election Law which provides that voters in primary elections must have been enrolled in the party prior to the previous general election, appeal from Chief Judge Mishler’s decision in the Eastern District declaring section 186 unconstitutional as a violation of plaintiffs’ rights under the *651First and Fourteenth Amendments and the federal Voting Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1973, as amended 42 U.S.C. § 1973aa. We reverse.

Section 186 is part of New York’s comprehensive regulation of…