JUSIPER
Friday, August 26, 2005
More voting rights in Iraq than in Florida
Not surprising, but a national disgrace nonetheless. From TAPPED's Mark Leon Goldberg:
It would seem that Katherine Harris' memo was lost somewhere in translation. Via the Institute for War and Peace Reporting:
(Al-Mutamar) Yoosho Ibrahim, the deputy justice minister, said all the detainees at Iraqi jails will take part in the constitutional process through a mechanism that will enable them to participate in the coming elections. According to the latest survey, there are 7,368 detainees in the jails, excluding those detained in the Kurdistan region
And there you have it: Iraq grants more voting rights to its prisoners than 14 states grant to ex-felons.
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