“Legislature has the power to regulate elections in order to prevent bribery, fraud and corruption to the end that the people’s right to vote may be protected. . . . But such regulation must be narrowly drawn to meet the precise evil sought to be curbed”
How later courts described this case
- “Legislature has the power to regulate elections in order to prevent bribery, fraud and corruption to the end that the people’s right to vote may be protected. . . . But such regulation must be narrowly drawn to meet the precise evil sought to be curbed”
- concurring opinion of Quirico, J.
- Quirico, Braucher, & Kaplan, JJ., concurring
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
On October 13, 1972, the following order was issued by the court:
“whereas this matter is before us on the reservation and report of the single justice; and
*572 “whereas a prompt resolution of the questions presented is required; and
“whereas time does not allow that the opinion in the matter be prepared and filed at this time in view of the exigencies of the situation; and
“whereas said opinion will be filed in the near future; “now, therefore, be it ordered that “General Laws c. 55, § 7, as amended through St. 1972, c. 458, is not effective to prohibit the plaintiffs from making the proposed expenditures which are in issue in this case.”