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Alabama Restores Voting Rights to Some Ex-Prisoners

Loaded on April 15, 2004 published in Prison Legal News April, 2004, page 9
Filed under: Organizing, Voting, State Legislation. Location: Michigan.
On June 24, 2003, Republican Alabama governor Bob Riley announced he was vetoing the felons' voting bill passed by the state legislature. The bill would have made it easier for certain felons to have their voting rights reinstated. Alabama law imposes a lifetime ban on voting for any person convicted ...

 

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