“Eligibility to vote at primary. No person shall be permitted to vote at a primary of a party unless he is on the last-completed enrolment list of such party in the municipality or voting district, as the case may be . . . .”
“(T)he requirement of this pledge, unlike the requirement of color, is reasonably related to a legitimate legislative objective namely, to protect the party system by protecting the party from a fraudulent invasion by candidates who will not support the party. . . . In facilitating *846 the effective operation of democratic government, a state might reasonably classify voters or candidates according to party affiliations . . .. This requirement of a pledge does not deny equal protection or due process.”
“Far from abridging federal rights, the Texas statutes here under review serve to protect the political rights of Texans to join political parties and to enjoy the free right of association appurtenant thereto with some protection against raids and interference from independents or members of other political parties.”
“(T)o the extent Ohio's election laws limit the right to participate in a party primary or be a candidate for political office, a person is excluded by reasonable restriction but not by a political caste system. There can be no discrimination of constitutional proportion when a man refrains from entering a party primary of one of the two major political parties because he regards himself an independent or a member of a minority party.”
“. . . a major factor in the increase in proportion of unaffiliated voters is the discontent and dissatisfaction of large numbers of citizens with the political parties . . .,”
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