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MELCHIOR v. TODMAN

Civ. No. 360.

296 F.Supp. 900 (1968)

Ariel MELCHIOR, Jr., Plaintiff, v. Henrita TODMAN, Supervisor of Elections of the Government of the Virgin Islands, Defendant.

District Court, Virgin Islands D. St. Thomas and St. John.

November 2, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Maas, Ireland & Bruno, Charlotte Amalie, V. I. (Thomas D. Ireland, Charlotte Amalie, V. I., of counsel), and Karpatkin, Ohrenstein & Karpatkin, New York, N. Y. (Marvin M. Karpatkin, Michael N. Pollet and William E. Crain, New York, N. Y., of counsel), for plaintiff.

Francisco Corneiro, Atty. Gen. of the Virgin Islands, for defendant.

OPINION AND DECLARATORY DECISION

HASTIE, Chief Circuit Judge (sitting by designation).

Section 584(c) (4) of Title 18, Virgin Islands Code, provides that where a voter in a territorial election shall mark his ballot in the "Party Column" to show that he votes for all candidates of a qualified political party and in addition shall vote for one or more individual candidates not of that party, the straight party vote shall be counted and the other individual...

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