The Right To Vote Should Not Be a Criminal Matter
By Jeralyn, Section Inmates and Prisons
Posted on Mon Jan 19, 2004 at 03:52:03 PM EST
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Posted on Mon Jan 19, 2004 at 03:52:03 PM EST
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Eric Alterman and Laleh Ispahani make an excellent argument for restoring the right to vote to ex-felons in Is the Right to Vote a Criminal Matter? over at Center for American Progress.
Former felons are by and large without a voice in our contemporary debate and so few seem to find their disenfranchisement a political problem worth examining. This is the case, amazingly, even when the confusion — and deliberate chicanery this confusion can invite — can put the wrong man in the White House.
For more, see the Human Rights Watch report "Losing the Vote: The Impact of Felony Disenfranchisement Laws in the United States."
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