I demand a Supreme Court ruling on the registration rule

[Emsworth]

Jfern, when exactly was this election in which you were prevented from voting for BRTD?

[Emsworth]

It would appear that the rules have changed since Jfern's vote was disqualified.

The First Constitution provides:
"[V]oters may register at anytime, but must register at least ten days before any election in order to partake in the election. ... The person may be allowed to change their state of registration; however, if a change of states is not made within ten days of the election, the state from which they were originally registered shall be the state from which their vote is cast." (Article V, Clause 4)

The Second Constitution provides:
"In order to vote or be a candidate in an election, a person must have been a registered voter on the tenth day before that election." (Article V, Section 2, Clause 4)

As you can see, the two requirements are not the same. The original Constitution required registration in the district ten days before the election. The current Constitution requires registration in general ten days before the election.

Now, the Second Constitution was adopted on April 28, 2005. The special election for District 3A was held from April 29-May 1. However, I am assuming that, since the vacancy occurred prior to the adoption of the new constitution, and since the new constitution does not recognize something called "District 3A," the election was still being held under the old rules.

[Emsworth]

Lewis Trondheim brings up an important point. Even if the election was being conducted under the Second Constitution rather than the First, Jfern may have been disenfranchised because no-one noticed the rule change. It may have been wrongly assumed that the new constitution contained the same requirement as the old one. In other words, it is possible that Jfern was disenfranchised not because of any particular interpretation of the law, but because no-one bothered to read the law.