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Ex-felons who served their sentence should be able to vote
Paul Hogarth, Daily Kox
Feb. 13, 2014
In most states, convicted felons lose the right to vote—but after completing their sentence, they have it restored. In other words, after they’ve paid their dues.
But in eleven states—including Florida and Arizona—felons permanently lose the right to vote. Forever.
Because of who gets arrested, tried and convicted, one in 13 African-Americans are now disenfranchised.
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder came out against such state laws today, calling them “at best outdated” and at worst echoing the Jim Crow laws.
Keep fighting,
Paul Hogarth, Daily Kos