Legal Opinion
Segovia v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided January 18, 2018No. 16-4240PublishedCited by 36 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MANION, Circuit Judge.
In this appeal, former residents of Illinois now residing in the United States territories of Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Virgin Islands challenge federal and state statutes that do not allow them to obtain absentee ballots for federal elections in Illinois. Generally, federal and state law require that former residents living outside of the United States who retain their U.S. citizenship receive such ballots. But the territories. where the plaintiffs now reside are considered part of the United States under the relevant statutes, while other territories are not. The…
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