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New Hampshire Prisoners Gain the Vote

Loaded on May 15, 1999 published in Prison Legal News May, 1999, page 18
Filed under: Organizing, Voting. Location: New Hampshire.
ANew Hampshire Superior Court ruled that state laws prohibiting all incarcerated felons from voting violate the state constitution.

On September 4, 1998, state prisoner David J. Fischer sent a letter to the Rochester City Clerk to request "that you register me to vote in the next election and also that …

 

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