Martin v. Haith

How later courts describe this case

• the Act applies "to all voting without any limitation as to who, or what, is the object of the vote"
• employees who continued to work in their old jobs upon sale of division found to be outside the scope of "job elimination" under severance pay policy
• "We hold the fact that an election law deals with the election of members of the judiciary does not remove it from the ambit of section 5.”
• summarily affirming district court’s application of § 5 to judicial elections