Study Says State Felon Voting Bans Deliberately Anti-Black 

Thursday, July 8, 2004 at 04:21AM
TheSpook

• (A seperate issue from the Florida felon voter purge. At issue there is whether the State "mistakenly" placed eligible voters on an ineligible voter list that was hidden from the public.)

 Jim Crow‑like voter disfranchisement laws established to thwart the "menace of Negro domination" during Reconstruction are still in place in states with large African American electorates, a new study says. The report cites Florida, Georgia, Texas, Virginia and Kentucky among the states where recent close elections for the U.S. Senate (and the 2000 presidential race) went to Republican candidates, in part because of restrictive felon disenfranchisement laws that deny former felons, probationers and parolees the right to vote . [more]
Jim Crow in Cyberspace: The Unreported Story of How They Fixed the Vote in Florida [more]

Article originally appeared on (http://brownwatch.com/).