Disenfranchisement News: Your Support is Needed for the Democracy Restoration Act Today!
TAKE ACTION: Add Your Organization to a Sign-on Letter in Support of the Democracy Restoration Act
Dear Friends:
The Sentencing Project is engaged with Senator Russ Feingold and Representative John Conyers on legislation to restore federal voting rights to individuals with felony convictions who are not incarcerated. The Democracy Restoration Act will be introduced in the coming weeks and we hope to have strong support from members of Congress. We are writing to ask for your organization's support in this effort. Please review this sign-on letter (http://sentencingproject.org/userfiles/file/fd_DRASignOnLetter.pdf) and consider adding your organization to the chorus of advocates seeking a more inclusive democracy.
The deadline to include your organization on the letter to Congress is July 1. Please email staff@sentencingproject.org to join.
National: Department of Justice Makes Available State-specific Tools on Rights Restoration
The Department of Justice Civil Rights Division has posted on its Web site a comprehensive guide for individuals across the country to learn how to regain their voting rights, if eligible. The guide provides links for each state that point directly to the state's disenfranchisement laws and restoration procedures.
Alabama: Inmates Prepare for Municipal Election
Rev. Kenneth Glasgow and The Ordinary People's Society are registering voters in city and county jails to vote in the upcoming municipal election, the Dothan Eagle reported. Persons in prison or jail in Alabama may vote if not convicted of crimes of moral turpitude. In 2006, 90 inmates in city and county jails statewide voted. In 2007, 300 voted, and in 2008, 2,500 inmates voted, including individuals in state prison, the article states.
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Democracy or Republic
Comment posted by Anonymous on Sun, 07/05/2009 - 10:42pmOur counrty was once a Republic, the founding fathers did not trust democracies,
they had little faith in them for they lead to more problems.
Sometime in 1913 we became a democracy while president Woodrow Wilson was in office. He was the same president who gave us the Federal Reserve and in-salved our country to the Rothchilds and Central Banks with there fiat money.
Check out the link below for a good explanation on our country and its laws backed by democracy.....................
http://www.devvy.com/pdf/larosa/larosa_democracy_or_republic.pdf