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Teaching Elements Of Election Law Beyond The Disciplinary Borders Of "Election Law", Frances R. Hill
Teaching Elements Of Election Law Beyond The Disciplinary Borders Of "Election Law", Frances R. Hill
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Documentary Disenfranchisement, Jessie Allen
Documentary Disenfranchisement, Jessie Allen
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In the generally accepted picture of criminal disenfranchisement in the United States today, permanent voting bans are rare. Laws on the books in most states now provide that people with criminal convictions regain their voting rights after serving their sentences. This Article argues that the legal reality may be significantly different. Interviews conducted with county election officials in New York suggest that administrative practices sometimes transform temporary voting bans into lifelong disenfranchisement. Such de facto permanent disenfranchisement has significant political, legal, and cultural implications. Politically, it undermines the comforting story that states’ legislative reforms have ameliorated the antidemocratic interaction of …