[EL] Re-enfranchisement of felons in TN

[George Scoville]

Re:  the item below on voting rights in Alabama, this has also been
something of an issue in Tennessee:
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/15/tennessee-voting-rights-_n_7292064.html

And if I may remind list subscribers, *The University of Memphis Law Review*'s
2019 symposium next spring will address "Barriers at the Ballot Box:
Protecting or Limiting the Core of the American Identity?"
https://submissions.scholasticahq.com/conversation/questions/the-university-of-memphis-law-review-call-for-symposium-papers-addressing-voting-rights

On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 2:00 PM, <
law-election-request at department-lists.uci.edu> wrote:

>
> Voting Rights Restoration Project in Alabama
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=100062>
> Posted on July 13, 2018 9:24 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=100062> by
> Dan
> Tokaji <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=5>
>
> Campaign Legal Center and Southern Poverty Law Center announcement
> <https://campaignlegal.org/press-releases/campaign-legal-
> center-launches-voting-rights-restoration-project-splc>
>  on their efforts to re-enfranchise Alabama voters with felony convictions:
>
> The Alabama Voting Rights Project will take a simple message across the
> state: A felony conviction does not permanently take away a person?s right
> to vote. Many Alabama residents who have paid their debts to society are
> eligible to vote or to have their voting rights restored by obtaining a
> Certificate of Eligibility to Register to Vote.
>
> AL.com has this story
> <https://www.al.com/news/birmingham/index.ssf/2018/07/
> new_initiative_aims_to_help_th.html>
>



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