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For Those Once Behind Bars, A Nudge to the Voting Booth August 11, 2008 By Krissah Williams Thompson ...
Sean “Diddy” Combs can vote in the 2024 election while locked up and awaiting his trial on sex trafficking charges, The Post can confirm. The disgraced music mogul, 55, has been behind bars in ...
For Pa.’s returning citizens, getting into the voting booth can be an uphill battle There is no database that logs if people who were once convicted of a felony register to vote or even if they do ...
The law requires law enforcement and election officials to offer six hours of in-person voting and services that make it possible for confined people to register to vote.
Decades of tough sentencing laws and financial incentives to keep people behind bars has created a system where people are jailed at alarming rates. Louisiana is now the world's prison capital.
Over the summer, the DC Council expanded voting rights to incarcerated felons. The DC jail has helped register more than 400 inmates to vote.
Delaware: "Has a policy against cellphones in voting booths, but elections Commissioner Elaine Manlove said: 'I don’t know that we can control what happens behind the curtain.'” ...
A Colorado county clerk was sentenced to nine years in prison Thursday after spearheading a data breach scheme in the 2020 presidential election. District Judge Matthew Barrett sparred with former ...
Current law bars electioneering within 100 feet of a polling place. Party officials say an expanded ban is unnecessary.
Both former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, face sentencing for nonviolent felonies before Election Day. Although it seems unlikely either will be behind bars on ...
Louisiana voters can snap selfies in the voting booth Nov. 8, but it's not exactly encouraged. (The Associated Press) This election marks the third presidential contest since Steve Jobs unveiled ...
There’s a segment of the voting-age population that few politicians talk about: Those with prior felony convictions. But it’s estimated that nearly 6 million people—2.5 percent of the ...