SID SALTER: Restoration of felons’ voting issue likely to resurface in 2014
As part of his final months in office, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has continued to beat the political drums for restoration of voting rights to felons in states like Mississippi that make it difficult if not impossible for convicted felons to vote.
Holder said earlier this year in a speech at the Georgetown University Law Center:“It is time to fundamentally reconsider laws that permanently disenfranchise people who are no longer under federal or state supervision.”
The outgoing Obama Administration attorney general bases his argument, in part, on a recent study in Florida that suggests that felons there who were granted voting rights exhibited a lower rate of recidivism….
…Not even the support of Libertarians like Sen. Paul will nudge the GOP majority in the Legislature toward his position.
Daily Journal
10/13/14
