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Should Felons Have the Right to Vote?
In California, felons serving time in prison or county jail are denied their right to vote. So too are ex-felons who have served their prison terms but are still on parole.That amounts to a fairly...
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The Voting Rights Act: A Cartoon History
The U.S. Supreme Court in June struck down a key part of the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965. In the first of his three-part illustrated series on voting rights in America, comic journalist Andy...
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Why Thousands of California Felons May Soon Get Their Voting Rights Restored
California inmates in a Chino prison (Kevork Djansezian/Getty) You can’t vote in California if you’re serving time in state prison or released on parole. But you can vote if you’re doing time in county...
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Map: America’s Confusing Patchwork of Voting Laws
Think you know your state’s voting rules? Better check again before heading to the polls next month. Depending on where you live, those rules might have changed since the last time you voted. And those...
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A Modern History of Voting Rights (in Three Illustrated Acts)
The upcoming midterms marks the first major nationwide election since the Supreme Court struck down a key piece of the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act. The 2013 decision had an immediate impact, giving...
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Nearly 6 million voting-age Americans can’t vote in the 2016 primaries and presidential election because of various state felon disenfranchisement laws. Almost half of this total disenfranchised...
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