Question: Is the answer A? Since a growing town started booming a few years ago, the population has increased dramatically, but has been transient. Many people

Is the answer A?

Since a growing town started booming a few years ago, the population has increased dramatically, but has been transient. Many people "move" to the town to stay for a few months, often living in short-term rental properties and residential hotels, only to move on at the end of a season. In an effort to ensure that only permanent residents of the town participate in local elections, the town has enacted an ordinance that conditions voter registration on the payment of property taxes. A long-time town resident who rents an apartment from a local development company is dismayed when she attempts to register to vote in the upcoming election and the town clerk refuses to allow her to do so.

In a suit filed by the renter to force the town to register her as a voter, will the renter prevail?

(A) Yes, because the property qualification violates the renter's rights under the Equal Protection Clause. (B) Yes, because the renter paid property taxes in town for a number of years. (C) No, because the town's property qualification is valid. (D) No, if the town can demonstrate that the property qualification is rationally related to a legitimate government goal.

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