decoration decoration
Stories

GROKLAW
When you want to know more...
decoration
For layout only
Home
Archives
Site Map
Search
About Groklaw
Awards
Legal Research
Timelines
ApplevSamsung
ApplevSamsung p.2
ArchiveExplorer
Autozone
Bilski
Cases
Cast: Lawyers
Comes v. MS
Contracts/Documents
Courts
DRM
Gordon v MS
GPL
Grokdoc
HTML How To
IPI v RH
IV v. Google
Legal Docs
Lodsys
MS Litigations
MSvB&N
News Picks
Novell v. MS
Novell-MS Deal
ODF/OOXML
OOXML Appeals
OraclevGoogle
Patents
ProjectMonterey
Psystar
Quote Database
Red Hat v SCO
Salus Book
SCEA v Hotz
SCO Appeals
SCO Bankruptcy
SCO Financials
SCO Overview
SCO v IBM
SCO v Novell
SCO:Soup2Nuts
SCOsource
Sean Daly
Software Patents
Switch to Linux
Transcripts
Unix Books

Gear

Groklaw Gear

Click here to send an email to the editor of this weblog.


You won't find me on Facebook


Donate

Donate Paypal


No Legal Advice

The information on Groklaw is not intended to constitute legal advice. While Mark is a lawyer and he has asked other lawyers and law students to contribute articles, all of these articles are offered to help educate, not to provide specific legal advice. They are not your lawyers.

Here's Groklaw's comments policy.


What's New

STORIES
No new stories

COMMENTS last 48 hrs
No new comments


Sponsors

Hosting:
hosted by ibiblio

On servers donated to ibiblio by AMD.

Webmaster
Federal or State vote? | 559 comments | Create New Account
Comments belong to whoever posts them. Please notify us of inappropriate comments.
Felon Disenfranchisement
Authored by: jjs on Friday, January 18 2013 @ 09:38 PM EST
Voting is set by the States (subject to certain
Federal guidelines, such as the Voting Rights Act). Some
states grant felons the right to vote while in prison
(Vermont & Maine), others require different times, and
others require not only a time period, but an active
petition to reinstate the right, which may be turned down
(in some cases, the petition is to the state legislature,
which must pass a bill - ex Mississipi). In some cases, in
some states, for certain crimes (example rape), the felon
can NEVER regain their right to vote (Alabama and Delaware
for two).


Refs:
http://felonvoting.procon.org/view.resource.php%3f
resourceID=286

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/04/opinion/sunday/voting-
rights-former-felons.html?_r=0



---
(Note IANAL, I don't play one on TV, etc, consult a practicing attorney, etc,
etc)

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

  • Thanks - Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, January 19 2013 @ 01:29 AM EST
    • United States - Authored by: jjs on Saturday, January 19 2013 @ 05:59 AM EST
      • sports - Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, January 19 2013 @ 06:11 AM EST
        • sports - Authored by: Wol on Saturday, January 19 2013 @ 11:51 AM EST
        • Nope - Authored by: cjk fossman on Saturday, January 19 2013 @ 02:24 PM EST
    Federal or State vote?
    Authored by: Wol on Saturday, January 19 2013 @ 11:34 AM EST
    If he lives in a state where he loses his vote, does that mean he loses his
    right to vote in Federal elections?

    afaik, Euro rules apply to euro elections, English law has no say.

    Cheers,
    Wol

    [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

    Groklaw © Copyright 2003-2013 Pamela Jones.
    All trademarks and copyrights on this page are owned by their respective owners.
    Comments are owned by the individual posters.

    PJ's articles are licensed under a Creative Commons License. ( Details )