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Campaigns butt heads over felons' voting rights

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Campaigns butt heads over felons' voting rights The Roanoke Times October 25, 2008 RICHMOND -- Republican John McCain's presidential campaign is accusing Democratic rival Barack Obama and Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine of making a coordinated effort to add felons to the state's voter rolls, a charge that Democrats said is a sign of GOP desperation in the closing days of the race. McCain's campaign said Friday that Kaine was restoring the voting rights of convicted felons at an accelerated clip to help Obama in the Nov. 4 election. Trey Walker, McCain's mid-Atlantic regional campaign manager, accused the governor of participating in a "conspiracy" with the Obama campaign, a charge that Obama's campaign and the governor's office called baseless. "I think it's pretty clear that this is just a smear tactic," Kaine spokeswoman Delacey Skinner said...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on October 27, 2008 (boomark / email).