Legal Opinion
Orr v. Edgar
Appellate Court of Illinois
Decided September 26, 1996No. 1—96—1613, 1—96—2178, 1—96—3050 consPublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PRESIDING JUSTICE ZWICK
delivered the opinion of the court:
In these consolidated appeals, we are called upon to review the validity of the two-tier system of voter registration implemented by defendants. For the reasons that follow, we hold that this two-tier system, as implemented by defendants, is violative of state law and infringes upon fundamental constitutional rights.
In granting summary judgment in favor of the plaintiffs, the circuit court held that the two-tier system, which implemented the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA) (42 U.S.C. § 1973 et seq. (West 1994)), violated…
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