The right to vote is constitutionally protected under the Due Process and Equal Protection clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. See U.S. Const. amend. XIV, § 1 (“No State shall . . . deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”); Bush v. Gore, 531 U.S. 98, 104 (2000) (“When the state legislature vests the right to vote for President in its people, the right to vote as the legislature has prescribed is fundamental; and one source of its fundamental nature lies in the equal weight accorded to each vote and the equal dignity owed to each voter.”). Under Article I, § 2 of the Maryland Constitution, our General Assembly is required to establish “a uniform Registration of the names of all the voters in this State, who possess the qualifications prescribed in” Article I, §§ 1 and 4. Such registration is “conclusive evidence . . . of the right of every person . . . to vote at any election thereafter held in this State.” Nader for President 2004 v. Maryland State Bd. of Elections, 399 Md. 681, 68687 (2007) (alterations in original) (emphasis removed) (quoting Art. I, § 2 of the Md. Const.). Under Article I, § 4 of the Maryland Constitution, the only “two instances in which an individual otherwise qualified to vote may be denied the right to vote” are (1) when that “person is ‘convicted of an infamous or other serious crime’ or (2) if the person is ‘under care or guardianship for a mental disability.’” Id. at 687-88 (quoting Art. I, § 4 of the Md. Const.). “The Constitution does not require, and, thus, does not allow for the disqualification of voters, otherwise qualified to vote, on any other basis.” Id. at 688. 3

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