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Offline EdinVA

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Thousands of California convicts to regain voting rights
« on: August 04, 2015, 10:54:59 pm »
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California restored voting rights Tuesday to tens of thousands of criminals serving sentences under community supervision, reversing a decision by a state official that they could not participate in elections.

Secretary of State Alex Padilla announced the settlement between the state and the American Civil Liberties Union of California, which sued on behalf of nearly 60,000 convicts who became ineligible to vote when then Secretary of State Debra Bowen determined in 2014 that community supervision was equivalent to parole.

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Re: Thousands of California convicts to regain voting rights
« Reply #1 on: August 04, 2015, 10:55:29 pm »
Setting the stage for a democratic win?

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Re: Thousands of California convicts to regain voting rights
« Reply #2 on: August 04, 2015, 11:27:54 pm »
I don't know. Why should felons not be able to vote for others of their kind?
"The most terrifying force of death, comes from the hands of Men who wanted to be left Alone. They try, so very hard, to mind their own business and provide for themselves and those they love. They resist every impulse to fight back, knowing the forced and permanent change of life that will come from it. They know, that the moment they fight back, their lives as they have lived them, are over. -Alexander Solzhenitsyn