Florida Reports Progress in Reinfranchising Felons - Eliminates Backlog
Friday, June 18, 2004 at 03:13PM
TheSpook
This Has Nothing to do with the Felony Voter Purge of 47,000 people
Gov. Jeb
Bush announced Thursday that Florida had nearly eliminated the backlog
of felons seeking to have their voting rights restored and that only
8,000 applications remained under review. ACLU stated, "If the governor
and his cabinet members were serious about helping former felons
rehabilitate their lives and become productive, taxpaying members of
society," Howard Simon, the group's executive director, said in the
statement, they would "automatically restore people's rights after they
have been released from prison and completed their supervision." [more]
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