Metros v. Secretary of the Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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• finding no violation of right to vote, and positing that voter could write in candidate’s name, where candidate did not satisfy disqualification provision
• postelection appeal of order denying injunction moot where motion sought specific relief to allow plaintiff's name to be printed on ballot
• challenge to Massachusetts disaffiliation provision falls within exception to mootness bar for purposes of declaratory relief
• “It is the general rule that courts decide only actual controversies. We follow that rule, and normally we do not decide moot cases”

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