context: "[W]hen a state election law provision imposes only 'reasonable, nondiscriminatory restrictions' upon the First and Fourteenth Amendment rights of voters, 'the State's important regulatory interests are generally sufficient to justify' the restrictions." Appellants contend that the following interests that the statute advances are important: (1) regulating the election process, (2) preventing voter confusion, (3) preventing the destabilizing and disorganizing effects of interparty raiding and intraparty feuding, (4) maintaining the order and integrity of primary election processes, (5) protecting party purity, and (6) protecting the right of political parties not to associate with another party's members.
citation_a.signal: see also
citation_a.identifier: 415 U.S. 724, 726
citation_a.parenthetical: outlining the same interests cited in Garza and noting that the State has a compelling interest in protecting the stability of the political system
citation_a.sentence: See, e.g., Garza, 924 F.Supp. at 73 (identifying a number of important interests served by section 162.015 in affirming the constitutionality of the “sore loser” provisions of the statute); see also Storer v. Brown, 415 U.S. 724, 726, 94 S.Ct. 1274, 39 L.Ed.2d 714 (1974) (outlining the same interests cited in Garza and noting that the State has a compelling interest in protecting the stability of the political system).
citation_b.signal: see
citation_b.identifier: 924 F.Supp. 73, 73
citation_b.parenthetical: identifying a number of important interests served by section 162.015 in affirming the constitutionality of the "sore loser" provisions of the statute
citation_b.sentence: See, e.g., Garza, 924 F.Supp. at 73 (identifying a number of important interests served by section 162.015 in affirming the constitutionality of the “sore loser” provisions of the statute); see also Storer v. Brown, 415 U.S. 724, 726, 94 S.Ct. 1274, 39 L.Ed.2d 714 (1974) (outlining the same interests cited in Garza and noting that the State has a compelling interest in protecting the stability of the political system).