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"Felons denied hearing on bid to vote"

"Felons denied hearing on bid to vote": Today's edition of The Boston Globe contains an article that begins, "The US Supreme Court has declined to hear a legal challenge to the Massachusetts Constitution's prohibition against voting by convicted felons in prison."

And Warren Richey of The Christian Science Monitor reports that "Supreme Court rejects Massachusetts felons' voting rights challenge; Three Massachusetts felons alleged that the commonwealth violated the Voting Rights Act when it passed a referendum stripping incarcerated felons of the right to vote."

Full post as published by How Appealing on October 19, 2010 (boomark / email).