A California Court of Appeal has upheld against state constitutional challenge a California State Bar rule that allows only active members of the State Bar who maintain their principal law offices in the respective State Bar districts can vote, or run as candidates, for the Board. Plaintiff, from out of state, challenged the rules under the California constitutional right to vote and free speech provisions, that are roughly akin in this context to federal constitutional standards. The opinion in Hoffman v. State Bar gives a nice summary of the legal rules governing restrictions on the franchise.