6 Million Stopped From Voting: Kemba Smith Fights for Ex-Felons
And for millions of African Americans, who figure prominently among the nearly 6 million citizens who cannot vote due to felony disenfranchisement laws, the road to the polls remains a steep one. Kemba Smith Pradia, whose case drew national attention, ...politic365.com
States Deny Millions Of Ex-Felons Voting Rights
Laughlin McDonald, director of the ACLU's Voting Rights Project, said felon disenfranchisement has long been used as a tool to suppress the black vote.www.huffingtonpost.com
NAACP: Felon Disenfranchisement Is About Race
With national NAACP president Benjamin Todd Jealous and Golden Globe-winning actor Charles Dutton headlining, the group tried to shine a spotlight on the the issue of "felony disenfranchisement." "Voting is a right," said Jealous, speaking from the ...www.theroot.com
Lee Davis: Study Highlights Harm Done By Felon Disenfranchisement Laws
This election year voting rights laws have turned into a heated issue as civil rights groups and state legislatures fight over photo ID requirements.www.chattanoogan.com
Risk of Disenfranchisement High for Ex-Felons
Walter Lomax can still remember the day he cast his first vote in an election. The emotion in his voice changes as he takes a pause, attempting to put into words how it felt to exercise the right after serving 40 years, wrongly convicted, in a Maryland ...www.afro.com
Billboards Unveiled Friday in NAACP 'Felony Disenfranchisement' Campaign
The deadline to register voters in Florida is just days away, but there's a group of people who won't be able to participate in this year's election regardless of their Florida residency.news.wfsu.org
Our Opinion: Felons and the vote
Felony disenfranchisement, or the policy of prohibiting convicted felons from voting, keeps an estimated 5.8 million Americans - as well as one of every five black men in Florida - from exercising a basic part of citizenship that most Americans take ...www.tallahassee.com
NAACP takes felon voting rights fight to the United Nations
"Even if I did understand the state of Virginia's hesitancy to automatically restore a [felony convict's] right to vote, how could the state totally ignore that these felony disenfranchisement laws had racial intent and emerged after the 15th Amendment ...flcourier.com
Kemba Smith Pradia Joins Drive to Restore Ex-Felon Voting Rights
And for millions of African Americans, who figure prominently among the nearly 6 million citizens who cannot vote due to felony disenfranchisement laws, the road to the polls remains a steep one. Kemba Smith Pradia, whose case drew national attention, ...www.afro.com
Should felons vote? In some states, it's easy. In others, impossible.
With voting laws a heated issue this election year as civil rights groups and state legislatures battle over photo ID requirements in this election year, felon disenfranchisement laws have attracted less attention despite the potential votes at stake ...openchannel.nbcnews.com
COLUMN: Democracy means all, even felons, deserve to vote
Though the law was originally designed to prohibit the disenfranchisement of minorities, state legislatures are now using felony convictions as a way to circumvent both the Voting Rights Act and the 15th amendment. Restrictions on voting for felons are ...www.oudaily.com
Activists Work To Register Felons To Vote
The NAACP launched a national campaign against felon disenfranchisement Tuesday in Tallahassee, Fla. The group is seeking changes in laws that keep felons from voting.personalliberty.com
Group Wants to Change VA Ex-Felon Voting Law
Virginia is one of just four states that requires ex-felons to appeal to the governor in order to have their voting rights restored.www.whsv.com
Daniel Mears: Nothing is gained by restricting the rights of felons
By adding more punishment - something more than probation, incarceration or parole - felons should be more deterred. To opponents, the message is one of disenfranchisement. It says: "Ex-felons, you are not one of us. You are not real citizens." ...www.tallahassee.com
Ex-cons unsure of voting rights
Twenty-eight states have taken steps in recent years to make it easier for felons to vote, according to the organization. Seven have repealed lifetime disenfranchisement laws, two have given those on probation the right to vote, nine now require ...www.greenvilleonline.com
Who can vote in Oregon with 49 days until marijuana legalization (Video)
Oregon data on felon disenfranchisement from The Sentencing Project. Photo credit: The Sentencing Project. In Oregon, as of 2010, there were 20,520 incarcerated felons in prison or jail, and an additional 62,337 individuals on probation or parole for ...www.examiner.com
NAACP brings voter rights effort to Richmond
Pradia learned of her restoration the day before a news conference in Richmond with NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous as part of a national campaign to combat felony disenfranchisement laws. It's an effort that Jealous says will continue in ...www2.timesdispatch.com
Capital Report: 10-05-2012
Florida is one of a few states in the nation to have such a policy, and, as Sascha Cordner reports, the NAACP is working with others in a national campaign to stop what they call "felony disenfranchisement." There are a total of eleven state ...news.wfsu.org
The right to vote
U.S. Felon Disenfranchisement. The cartogram above distorts the land area on the map according to total felon disenfranchisement. States that disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of former felons, such as Florida, Kentucky, and Virginia, appear bloated.www1.umn.edu
Romney unfit to be President
As of 2004, more African American men were disenfranchised (due to felon disenfranchisement laws) than in 1870, the year the Fifteenth Amendment was ratified, prohibiting laws that explicitly deny the right to vote on the basis of race.mwcnews.net
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