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Federal Judge Knocks Down Florida’s Way of Restoring Felons’ Voting Rights

Mar 1, 2018 No Comments

Feb. 1st, a federal judge reviewing how Florida handles restoration of felons’ voting rights ruled it unconstitutional because the process gives the Florida Executive Clemency Board sweeping, unregulated power to decide whether to re-enfranchise former felons. Tallahassee-based district judge Mark E. Walker decided that violates applicants’ First Amendment rights of free speech and association and

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Redistricting Can Count Prisoners and Other Non-Voters, High Court Rules

Apr 14, 2016 No Comments

Rejecting a lawsuit filed by conservatives trying to rewrite the longstanding “one man, one vote” rule for drawing the lines for political districts, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled it is acceptable for states not to count just eligible voters, but to instead use the number of total residents. As a result, states can count

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Undoing Veto, Maryland Legislators Ease Ex-Felons Voting Rights

Feb 17, 2016 No Comments

An estimated 44,000 ex-felons in Maryland will have an easier time regaining the right to vote after being released from prison following the end of a heated fight between the state’s governor and its legislature. Without a vote to spare, backers of bills (SB 340, HB 980) to allow ex-felons’ voting privileges to be restored

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5.85 Million People Disenfranchised in Supposedly Democratic America

Feb 5, 2015 No Comments

By David M. Reutter The United States is billed as the world’s largest and greatest democracy. However, it is also “one of the world’s strictest nations when it comes to denying the right to vote to citizens convicted of crimes,” according to The Sentencing Project, a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit that promotes sentencing reforms, advocates for

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ACLU Defends Former Prisoners’ Right to Vote

Mar 24, 2014 No Comments

For the past several months, those of us in the prison litigation realm have watched the battle over prisoners’ voting rights unfold in the United Kingdom and the European Union.  Now we enjoy the ability to participate in our own such discussions, albeit not for current prisoners, but former prisoners in California. California state law

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