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BELOW v. SECRETARY OF STATE

No. 2002-243.

148 N.H. 1 (2002)

SENATOR CLIFTON BELOW & a. v. WILLIAM M. GARDNER, SECRETARY OF STATE

Supreme Court of New Hampshire.

Opinion Issued: June 24, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wiggin & Nourie, P.A., of Manchester (John P. Kacavas on the memorandum and orally), Shaheen & Gordon, P.A., of Concord (Steven M. Gordon on the memorandum), and Nixon Peabody, L.L.P., of Manchester (W. Scott O'Connell on the memorandum), for the petitioners.

Barry J. Glennon, staff attorney, of Concord, filed no memorandum, for the Secretary of State.

Richard J. Lehmann, senate legal counsel, by memorandum and orally, for the intervenor, the New Hampshire Senate.

Douglas, Robinson, Leonard & Garvey, P.C., of Concord (Charles G. Douglas, III, on the memorandum and orally), for the intervenor, the President of the New Hampshire Senate.

PER CURIAM.

"No right is more precious in a free country than that of having a voice in the election of those who make the laws under which, as good citizens, we must live. Other rights, even the most basic, are illusory if the right to vote is undermined." Wesberry v. Sanders, 376 U.S. 1, 17 (1964). Part I, Article 11 of the New Hampshire Constitution and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United...

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