Tag: inmates rights
By Jeralyn, Section Elections 2008
Posted on Fri Sep 19, 2008 at 02:46:56 PM EST
Tags: voter registration, inmates rights (all tags)
Posted on Fri Sep 19, 2008 at 02:46:56 PM EST
Tags: voter registration, inmates rights (all tags)
The AP reports:
Alabama Prisons Commissioner Richard Allen stopped a voter registration drive for inmates Thursday under pressure from the Alabama Republican Party.
In a letter to state Republican Party Chairman Mike Hubbard, Allen said individuals conducting the program "were not doing anything for the inmates that they could not do themselves by simply contacting the Secretary of State's Office for the voter registration postcard."
Allen's absurd rationale: [More...]
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