The decision does say that you need to be a permanent resident in order to vote in Illinois, but I can’t imagine anyone reading that as suggesting that that means what you think it implies. It’s just that the English language doesn’t really have a way to differentiate between the Illinois resident who likes living in his local Hilton because he enjoys room service and not being tied down by a lease, and the guy next door who’s been posted to Illinois for a year by his employer but returns to his house, wife and kids in Ohio every weekend.
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