grist for the mill
A not-so-secret research cacheWednesday, September 22, 2004
Yahoo! News - Millions Blocked from Voting in Election: "In total, 13 percent of all black men are barred from voting due to a felony conviction, according to the Commission on Civil Rights. Polls consistently find that black Americans overwhelmingly vote for Democrats.
'This has a huge effect on elections but also on black communities which see their political clout diluted. No one has yet explained to me how letting ex-felons who have served their sentences into polling booths hurts anyone,' said Jessie Allen of the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University."
'This has a huge effect on elections but also on black communities which see their political clout diluted. No one has yet explained to me how letting ex-felons who have served their sentences into polling booths hurts anyone,' said Jessie Allen of the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University."
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