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Liberty Lost: Felon Disenfranchisement
Last Featured: 5/29/2001
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During the presidential election last November, the spotlight was on
butterfly ballots and the disputed hand recounts in Florida, yet some
500,000 voting age residents had to watch the electoral drama from the
sidelines unable to cast a ballot. The reason, at one point or another
in their lives, they had been convicted of a felony. Florida is one of
a number of states that permanently deny ex-felons their right to vote.
But now, the law is being challenged in the state legislature and in the
courts.
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Nancy Northup
is the President of the Center for Reproductive Rights. She has extensive experience in constitutional impact litigation, criminal law, and reproductive rights advocacy. From 1996 to 2002, she was the Director of the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, where she litigated nationwide a wide range of electoral reform cases and promoted equal participation rights in our democratic processes. She also taught constitutional law as an adjunct professor at NYU. Prior to joining the Brennan Center, she was a consulting attorney with the ACLU’s Reproductive Freedom Project. From 1989 to 1996, she prosecuted federal crimes as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and served as Deputy Chief of Appeals.
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Ron Godbey
is a member of the New Mexico House of Representatives where he serves on the Judiciary, Corrections and Courts and Criminal Justice Committees among others. Godbey gave up his law practice in 1980 to return to active military service under the Reagan-Bush administration. A retired Air Force colonel, Godbey has been active in local government, serving as Chief Deputy Treasurer and as Director of the County Bureau of Elections in Bernalillo, New Mexico. Godbey is a certified consulting meteorologist and received his law degree from Southern Methodist University.
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Who Votes?
by Raymond E. Wolfinger, Steven J. Rosenstone (Contributor)
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