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What if 5.3 Million More Americans Could Vote?

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

What if 5.3 Million More Americans Could Vote? By Erika Wood, AlterNet Posted on April 21, 2008, Printed on April 22, 2008 http://www.alternet.org/story/82457/ This is a big year for American democracy. Hundreds of thousands of new voters are not only registering, but are actually showing up at the polls. States whose primary races have never counted before are suddenly the center of attention. Voters in Wyoming, Mississippi, North Carolina, and Kentucky, who have long gone ignored during primary season, finally find themselves with a voice and a vote. This year they matter. Despite this, our democracy still falls far short of its promise to be a government that truly represents the will of its citizens. Across the country there are 5.3 million Americans who are denied the right to vote because of a felony conviction in their past...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on April 23, 2008 (boomark / email).