Smith v. Blackwell

PARKER, Circuit Judge.

This suit was instituted in the court below by qualified electors of the State of South Carolina to obtain a declaratory judgment to the effect that the South Carolina election law as administered is violative of the requirements of the federal statutes, in that it does not adequately preserve secrecy of the ballot, and to obtain an order requiring the “names of all candidates for all political parties to be printed on the same tickets, which may be marked in private and curtained booths according to the principles of the so-called Australian system of voting, or any…