Segovia v. Board of Election Commissioners

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

Joan B. Gottschall, United States District Judge

As Franklin D. Roosevelt famously said in a 1944 radio address from the White House, “Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.” This statement assumes that all United States citizens can vote if they choose to do so. As this case shows, that assumption is incorrect. The plaintiffs in this action are six United States citizens who are former residents of Illinois and who now reside in Puerto Rico, Guam,…