| Posted on June 10, 2007 at 1:23 PM |
Libertarian Clubsters, coalition members meet with media on felon voting rights in 2005.
States such as Maine let felons, many of whom are in for technical and non-violent charges that weren't even misdemeanours a few years ago, vote from their prison cells.
Now after a statewide campaign led by Libertarians and community leaders, Florida has recognized felon voting rights, allowing those who have left prison to vote, and also correcting d-base mismanagement that prevented people who had been cleared to vote from voting.
Until then, it was up to the rehabilitated felon to prove the database, which included those convicted out of state, was wrong, a nearly impossible task.
The previous law was so broad it technically prevented civil rights protestors arrested on trumped up charges from the sixties from voting, or immigrants convicted of political protest in Communist countries.
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