Smith v. Dunn

MORTON, District Judge:

A provision of the Tennessee Election Code has the effect, in certain situations, of requiring persons under disability of blindness to reveal their vote to two election judges 1 in order to receive assistance in marking their ballots at elections. The question presented in this case is whether this state requirement denies blind persons rights protected by the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution.

Plaintiffs, individually and as authorized committee members of the organizations they represent, are qualified voters of the State of…