On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 04:29:09PM -0500, Doug Henwood wrote:
> Just got a copy of the premier issue of Legal Affairs, "the magazine
> at the intersection of law and life" <http://www.legalaffairs.org>.
> It has a page on the political consequences of felon
> disenfranchisement in the U.S. - 48 states restrict the voting rights
> of convicted felons (40 prohibit voting by inmates, 8 more strip
> ex-cons of voting rights for life). Florida banned 887,812 from
> voting; had they been allowed to vote, the magazine estimates that
> Gore would have carried the state by 93,429, instead of "losing" by
> 537. It also estimates, drawing on a paper by Jeff Manza and
> Christopher Uggen <ttp://www.soc.umn.edu/~uggen/>, that were felons
> allowed to vote in national elections, the Senate wouldn't have gone
> Republican, and would be 55:45 D:R today.
>
> Doug
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