State ex rel. Woods v. Theriot

Citations

• 124 La. 847
• 50 So. 770
• 1909 La. LEXIS 553

Syllabus

<p>1. Elections (§ 98*) — Registration of Voters.</p> <p>An elector, who leaves the parish and precinct in which he is entitled to vote and removes to another parish, is not entitled to be registered in the parish and precinct from which he removes, after residing in the parish to which he removes for 10 months and while still residing there.</p> <p>2. Elections (§ 95*) — Registration of Voters — Statutes. ■</p> <p>The proviso, contained in section 35, Act No. 199, p. 465, of 1898, to the effect that “the name of no voter shall be stricken from the list of registration in any parish who has left said parish within six months of the time for holding the election; so that the elector shall not lose his right to vote in one parish before he has acquired his right to vote in another,” cannot be sustained as establishing a rule in conflict with that established by article 167 of the Constitution.</p> <p>3.Elections (§ 98*) — Registration of Voters — Qualification.</p> <p>No one is entitled to be registered as a voter who does not possess the qualifications required of a voter.</p> <p>(Syllabus by the Court.)</p>