McDonald v. Board of Election Comm'rs of Chicago

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• holding that Illinois did not violate the Equal Protection Clause by refusing to give unsentenced inmates an absentee ballot, when there was no record evidence that inmates would be prevented from voting on election day
• holding that Illinois did not violate the Equal Protection Clause by refusing to give unsen-tenced inmates an absentee ballot, when there was no record evidence that inmates would be prevented from voting on election day
• holding that Illinois did not violate the Equal Protection Clause by refusing to give unsen-tenced inmates an absentee ballot, when there was no record evidence that inmates would be prevented from voting on election day
• applying rational basis to a state statute that prohibited plaintiffs’ access to absentee ballots where no burden on the right to vote was shown
• providing that the 25 right to absentee voting (i.e., a preference where other voting options exists) is not a 26 fundamental right because it does not in fact put the right to vote at stake
• observing that under rational basis review, “a legislature traditionally has been allowed to take reform ‘one step at a time, addressing itself to the phase of the problem which seems most acute to the legislative mind’”

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