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Amy Goodman : Denying felons a vote has substantial impact

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Published: 02.07.2008 My opinion Amy Goodman : Denying felons a vote has substantial impact As I raced into our TV studio for our Super Tuesday morning-after show, I was excited. Across the country, initial reports indicated there was unprecedented voter participation, at least in the Democratic primaries, several times higher than in previous elections. For years I have covered countries like Haiti, where people risk death to vote, while the United States has the lowest participation rates in the industrialized world. Could it be this year would be different? Then I bumped into a friend and asked if he had voted. "I can't vote," he said, "because I did time in prison." I asked him if he would have voted. "Sure I would have. Because then I'm not just talking junk, I'm doing something about it...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 08, 2008 (boomark / email).