Jeb Bush Preventing out of state ex-felons from voting - Delaying Process
Thursday, July 15, 2004 at 11:37AM
TheSpook
Now Jeb Bush is Preventing Black People who have had their voting
rights restored in other States from voting--- 1,249 felons waiting to
vote
As
many as 1,249 Floridians convicted of crimes in other states could be
mistakenly barred from voting in November, despite a 2-year-old
agreement by Florida election officials that was meant to return them
to the rolls. The reason: lost paperwork and slow-moving bureaucracies.
All 1,249 were convicted in states that automatically restore voting
rights to felons who have completed their sentences.But civil rights
lawyers who extracted the agreement from the state as part of a legal
settlement two years ago say election officials are plodding
unnecessarily, and the names should be restored automatically. [more]
Election Troubles Already Descending on Florida[more]
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