Hollifield v. Vickers

Hall, Judge.

The defendants contend that in the special Act’s requirement that 45% of the registered voters must vote in the election the General Assembly intended the term “regis*231tered voters” to mean the list of registered voters regardless of whether each name on the list is that of a qualified voter. The contention overlooks the fact that a voter must be a person, and a list or enumeration of “registered voters” can only be a list of names identifying individual persons who have registered in order to exercise their right to vote. Thus, a “registered voter” must be both registered and a…