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DESIREE EVANS, FACING SOUTH
March 27, 2009
Voter ID legislation continues to be a hot-button issue across the country. When the Supreme Court ruled last April that Indiana's voter ID law, considered the strictest law of its kind in the country, didn't violate the Constitution, the passage of ID laws became a big issue in Republican circles.
As a result, a wave of voter ID legislation was introduced in state legislatures prior to the 2008 election. By December 2008, more than 25 states had introduced bills to require voter ID at the polls, according to the voting rights group Project Vote.
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JULIAN WALKER, VIRGINIA PILOT
February 10, 2009
The Virginia Senate passed one measure, and defeated another, that would give the legislature constitutional power to restore voting rights to non-violent felons who lost them due to criminal convictions.
A constitutional amendment, SJ273, sponsored by Sen. Yvonne Miller, D-Norfolk, advanced out of the Senate on 27-13 vote today. Sen. Donald McEachin, D-Henrico, sponsored another measure that would automatically restore voting rights once a felon completes their sentence and subsequent parole or probation.
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MARY BETH SCHNEIDER, INDIANAPOLIS STAR
February 2, 2009
When low-income Hoosiers turn to state social-services offices for help, they're supposed to get something more than financial assistance. They're also supposed to be able to register to vote.
But two national voting-rights groups say Indiana is failing that federally required responsibility, and, as they have done elsewhere, are threatening to sue the state.
Project Vote and the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, say their November survey of nine Indiana Family and Social Services Administration offices in Lake and Marion counties found that none were providing voter registration forms to clients. Eight didn't even have the forms available, the groups said.
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