Tag Archives: felon disenfranchisement

Sen. Thayer On Felon Voting Rights: “If It Ain’t Broke…”

October 14, 2009 – 4:53 pm

So State Senator Damon Thayer, R-17, wrote an editorial in the Georgetown News-Graphic expressing exasperation over why some people believe that Kentucky’s current system of felon voter rights restoration is outmoded and inefficient. Yet his argument — that the system is fine as it is — is rife with enough oversimplifications and inaccuracies to warrant [...]

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Study: Felon Voter Restoration Not a Political Threat

October 6, 2009 – 3:45 pm

In last week’s LEO, I wrote about grassroots efforts to end felon disenfranchisement in Kentucky. One of my sources for that story, the activist/organizer Kate Miller, mentioned a study critical of the following politically expedient notion: If Republicans restore voting rights for former felons, then those former felons will go out and vote Democrat, unleashing [...]

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One-Hundred (More?) Years of Solitude

September 23, 2009 – 5:59 pm

Yesterday, in a magical land known only as “Frankfort,” a group of some 16 state lawmakers gathered in Room 171 of the Capitol Annex building to hear testimonies on behalf of House Bill 70, a piece of legislation that would amend Kentucky’s constitution to grant former felons the right of suffrage. Joining the lawmakers were [...]

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HB 70, Chaco-wearing Lobbyists, & You

February 10, 2009 – 4:42 pm

FRANKFORT, KY - At first glance, Greg Capillo appears to be anything but a “lobbyist” - that dreaded, loathsome word whose connotations with corruption, waste, and criminal activity have been cemented in our national consciousness by Jack Abramoff, a perpetually spited Congress, and (more recently) the memes of a righteous Presidential campaign pledging to end [...]

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