Is the "one person, one vote" principle violated when a member of a political party can participate in the nomination of a non-party candidate in a general election?
The following excerpt is from Mrazek v. Suffolk County Bd. of Elections, 630 F.2d 890 (2nd Cir. 1980):
Appellants herein seek favorable resolution of an issue left undecided in Montano v. Lefkowitz, 575 F.2d 378 (2d Cir. 1978), and determined adversely to them by the court below: that is, whether the "one-person, one-vote" principle is violated when members of a political party residing outside a particular political district are permitted under state law and party charter to participate in the nomination of non-party candidates seeking to represent that district
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