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GOP Intimidation Halts Historic Drive to Register Voters in Alabama

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

GOP Intimidation Halts Historic Drive to Register Voters in Alabama State Law Allows Certain People to Vote Even While Incarcerated Alabama Department of Corrections Caves to Republican Pressure, Tells Advocates: You Can No Longer Register Voters Inside Alabama Prisons DOTHAN?Alabama-based The Ordinary People's Society and their national partner the Drug Policy Alliance began a historic voter registration drive this week in prisons across Alabama. The drive was prepared with the full support of the Alabama Department of Corrections (DOC). However, after Alabama newspapers reported on the registration drive, the state GOP voiced their opposition to the effort and pressured the DOC to end it. Yesterday, the DOC reversed their position and has barred advocates from registering eligible voters in Alabama correctional facilities...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on September 20, 2008 (boomark / email).