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Little-Known Law Allows Some Texas Prisoners to Vote

Loaded on April 1, 2025 published in Prison Legal News April, 2025, page 14
Filed under: Felon Disenfranchisement Statute. Location: Texas.

Texas has an estimated 455,000 current and former felons. But no one knows if any of them voted in the November 2024 elections, nor even if any knew that they could. That is thanks to a little-known provision of state law that allows those appealing their first criminal conviction to ...

 

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