The People v. Kennay

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• when one abandons his home and takes up residence in another county or election district, he loses voting privilege in district from which he moved
• “our federal system contemplates that states will be primarily responsible for regulating their own elections”
• \our federal system contemplates that states will be primarily responsible for regulating their own elections\
• Third District, holding statutory ballot- submission procedure was mandatory where absentee ballots were given to party officials for delivery to the election office
• “If [due to delivery by an unauthorized person] the opportunity [for tampering with absentee ballots] has been present the presumption seems to follow that it has been used.”
• “residence for voting purposes means an actual place of abode” (emphasis added); “ ‘[a] real and not an imaginary abode, occupied as his home or dwelling, is essential to satisfy the legal requirements as to the residence of a voter’ ” (emphasis added)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).