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• Will The Court Revisit Felon Disfranchisement Laws This Term?.
• WASHINGTON -- Some have described felon disfranchisement as the last vestige of slavery in our country. ...
• WASHINGTON -- Some have described felon disfranchisement as the last vestige of slavery in our country. ...
• Nor can it be mere coincidence that felon disfranchisement laws are most harsh in the Southern States, which have a 150-year, post-Civil War history of crafting laws to prevent the descendants of former slaves from voting – including poll taxes, literacy tests and a host of other barriers which disparately impacted the poor and the under-educated.
• However, because of a strained reading of Section 2 of the Fourteenth Amendment in an opinion by Justice Rehnquist in 1974, felon disfranchisement laws have been able to survive efforts to expand the franchise and provide equal voting opportunity to minority groups.
• And while in a subsequent case out of Alabama, the Supreme Court ruled that felon disfranchisement laws would deny Equal Protection if it could be proven that the Legislature had acted with deliberate intent to discriminate on the basis of race, proof of actual intent is just about impossible.
• Ramirez to a claim directly under the Federal Constitution, the current legal attack on felon disfranchisement focuses on the Federal Voting Rights Act, which prohibits states from adopting any voting practice or procedure which results in an abridgement of the right to vote because of race or color, and provides that a violation is shown if:.
• Circuit Courts are sharply split on whether the Voting Rights Act was intended to apply to felon disfranchisement laws, and if it was, whether Congress could constitutionally do so in the face of Ramirez.
• State of Washington, in which a Ninth Circuit panel unanimously ruled that the Voting Rights Act did apply to felon disfranchisement laws, and that the plaintiffs could prevail if they could prove, as they alleged in their complaint, that the disparate impact on the minority community was in fact an artifact of the discriminatory operation of the criminal justice system. ...
• In any event, even if the Court decides not to take up felon disfranchisement laws this term, in light of the clear split in the Circuits, it will not be too long before the issue is back on the Court's docket.

• Felon disenfranchisement laws, combined with high rates of criminal punishment in the United States, sometimes play a decisive role in elections. ...
• The United States is unique among postindustrial democracies in that most states have established restrictions on voting rights for nonincarcerated felons, which make up three-quarters of the disenfranchised felon population. ...
• In their article, “Democratic Contraction? Political Consequences of Felon Disenfranchisement in the United States,” Uggen and Manza analyze whether felon disenfranchisement had meaningful political consequences in past elections. ...
• The researchers estimate that the disenfranchised felon population is composed of approximately 35 percent ex-felons, 28 percent probationers, 9 percent parolees, and 27 percent prison inmates. The impact of felon disenfranchisement would have been greatly reduced had ex-felons, parolees, and probationers—all citizens not currently in prison—been permitted to vote in all states. ...
• “By removing those with Democratic preferences from the pool of eligible voters, felon disenfranchisement has provided a small but clear advantage to Republican candidates in every presidential and senatorial election from 1972 to 2000,” wrote Uggen and Manza.
• In 1978 two of the 32 Senate elections might have had different outcomes if not for felon disenfranchisement, and this would have increased the Democrat majority from 58:41 to 60:39. ...
• “Assuming that Democrats who might have been elected in the absence of felon disenfranchisement had held their seats as long as the Republicans who narrowly defeated them,” said Uggen and Manza, “we estimate that the Democratic Party would have gained parity in 1984 and held majority control of the U. ...
• “We can thus conclude that the outcome of the 2000 presidential race hinged on the narrower question of ex-felon disenfranchisement rather than the broader question of voting restrictions on felons currently under supervision. ...
• The researchers examined only national presidential and senatorial outcomes and did not explore the potential consequences of felon disenfranchisement on U. ...

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• Middle English feloun, from Old French felon, wicked, a wicked person, from Medieval Latin fell, felln-, possibly of Germanic origin. ...

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• Fugitive Felon Program.
• Under Section 202(b) of the law, the Social Security Administration (SSA), upon receipt of a written request, must furnish to any Federal, State or local law enforcement officer the current address, Social Security number and photograph (if applicable) of an SSI recipient, if the SSI recipient is a fugitive felon or a parole or probation violator.
• Initially, OIG Field Divisions worked very closely with their established law enforcement counterparts to publicize this initiative, to conduct manual searches facilitating the apprehension of fugitives with the most egregious crimes, and to promote and support joint fugitive felon operations.
• The Fugitive Felon Program now uses automated data matches to compare warrant information from the National Crime Information Center (NCIC), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the United States Marshals Service (USMS) and State agencies with SSA's SSI rolls. ... A review of the available files indicates that there may be three times as many Old-Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance (OASDI) recipients as SSI recipients in a fugitive felon status at any given time. ...
• In the September 2003 report prepared by OA, Assessment of the SSI Fugitive Felon Program, OIG showed that SSA realized savings to the SSI program by suspending SSI payments to fugitives and recovering a portion of overpayments resulting from fugitive ineligibility. ...
• pdf Assessment of the Supplemental Security Income Fugitive Felon Project, issued 9/5/03.
• Fugitive Felon issues are covered under "Improper Payments. ...

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• And just by coincidence, the vast majority of these improperly banned voters turned out to be black - evn higher, as I recall, than the already disproportionate number of African Americans in the real Florida felon population.
• As part of a package of election reforms passed by the state legislature in 2001, Jeb's crew was told not to use felon lists obtained from other states (which had proved so inaccurate the last time around. ...
• So once again, coincidence had conspired to create a fraudulent felon list heavily slanted in favor of Jeb Bush's big brother. ...
• A simple clerical error, the Jebster said - the wrong button pushed, a computer glitch, resulting in a failure to merge two different felon lists (exactly why the names of Hispanic convicts were being kept in a separate file has never really been explained, as far as I know. ...
• And yet, just days before, various Florida election officials (including the Secretary of State, the Republican ex-mayor of Orlando and a Bush appointee) had been insisting that the felon purge had to go forward this year because it was mandated by the state legislature.
• But by now you really have to wonder: How long would Jeb Bush be able to stay off the Florida felon list himself if he wasn't the brother of the president and a member of one of the most powerful political dynasties the country has ever seen? I mean, when your kid tells you the dog ate his homework once, you might not believe it, but you might give him/her the benefit of the doubt. ...

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• Does A Felon Rove The White House? By Amy Goodman, Jeremy Scahill and the staff of Democracy Now! .

• The Felon Franchise.
• Several Democratic presidential candidates, including frontrunner Howard Dean, also support felon voting. ...
• This is particularly true in the case of felon voting, a cause championed by a growing number of politicians and interest groups.
• This tantalizes the felon-vote movement. ... Felon-vote proponents claim that had felons who have completed their sentences been permitted to vote in Florida, Gore would be president today. ...
• A few months ago, the state's department of corrections settled a lawsuit by felon-advocacy groups to ease restoration of voting rights for felons who've completed their sentences. ...
• In 2000, the Massachusetts electorate, among the most liberal in the country, voted for a constitutional amendment barring felon inmates from voting.
• But overwhelming public opposition has not deterred felon-vote advocates. ... Several recent lawsuits throughout the country assert that state felon-disenfranchisement laws violate Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act and the equal-protection guarantees in state constitutions. ...
• The racial-disparity argument is a recurrent theme in challenges to felon-voting prohibitions. ... Felon-vote advocates recite the statistic that nearly 1. ... The Sentencing Project maintains that black men are disenfranchised by state restrictions on felon voting at a rate seven times the national average. ...
• The purpose of the findings is to provide Fourteenth Amendment support for overriding state restrictions on felon voting. ... It's unlikely that a facially neutral felon-disenfranchisement law (without discriminatory intent) that has a racially disparate impact would violate the equal-protection clause. ...
• Most state disenfranchisement laws don't have blanket prohibitions against felon voting. ...
• As David Lampo notes, these distinctions are immaterial to many felon-vote advocates. ...

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