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5.4 million Americans--1 in every 40 voting-age adults--are denied the right to participate in democratic elections because of a past or current felony conviction In several American states, 1 in 4 black men cannot vote due to a felony conviction. In a country that prides itself on universal suffrage, how did the United States come to deny a voice to such a large percentage of its citizenry? What are the consequences of large-scale disenfranchisement--for election outcomes, for the reintegration of former offenders back into their communities, and for public policy more generally? Locked Out exposes one of the most important, yet little known, threats to the health of American democracy. It reveals the centrality of racial factors in the origins of these laws, and their impact on today's political landscape. Marshalling the first real empirical evidence on the issue to make a case for reform, the authors' groundbreaking analysis will inform all future policy and political debates on the laws governing the political rights of criminals..
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In the 2004 presidential election, 4,686,539 Americans—a population greater than the city of Los Angeles—were barred from the polls. In a country that has extended suffrage to virtually every other class of citizen, ex-felons are the sole segment of our population deemed unworthy to exercise what the Supreme Court has called "the right preservative of all other rights," the right to vote.

The Disenfranchisement of Ex-Felons provides a comprehensive overview of the history, nature, and far-reaching sociological and political consequences of denying ex-felons the right to vote. Readers learn state practices in Florida and Ohio during the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections; arguments that have been used in court houses, legislatures, and the press to justify such practices; and attempts to reverse legislation through state and federal governments. In a timely appendix to the 2004 election, Elizabeth Hull makes her case that the battle for civil rights will not be won unless ex-felons, who have fulfilled their obligations to society, are restored the same rights afforded all other American citizens..
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Disenfranchisement is synonymous with problematic, inhibiting issues (i.e., learned helplessness, socioeconomic and political non-representation, low self-esteem and low-leveled aspirations for future economic prosperity and life) that disempower those from gaining access to educational, economic and social/political success. The Disenfranchisement of African American Males: Analysis of an American Tradition contends to define today's problems that affect African American males and their communities, while isolating the possible issues that may, potentially, bring about resolve to the cyclic and genocidal effects of educational, economic, and socio-political disenfranchisement..
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Pettus traces felony disenfranchisement from Athenian democracy to the present She analyzes the contradiction between present state disenfranchisement practices and voting rights jurisprudence and concludes that American citizens lack equal voting rights: the right to vote for national representatives is trumped by state laws that define felonies and the criteria for disenfranchisement. The majority of the disenfranchised today are African-American, and most felony convictions are drug-related. Nonetheless, drug use and trafficking are equally distributed across demographic groups. The current variation in state laws disenfranchising felons, the lack of standard definitions of felonies, and the racial disparities within the criminal justice system reproduce many of the inequalities of the colonial America, despite the development of federal citizenship and voting rights law since the end of the Civil War..
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In this timely volume, the authors provide a penetrating analysis of the institutional mechanisms perpetuating the related problems of minorities' disenfranchisement and their underrepresentation on juries..
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This up-to-date and comprehensive DVD-ROM provides an exhaustive, authoritative, and unique collection of documents about American election procedures, voting, and balloting, including special material about the 2004 Presidential election and the Electoral College, with over 200,000 pages and nearly 4 gigabytes of material. There is a wealth of information pertinent to laws, rules, and court cases on disputed election results, ballot recounts, court challenges, ballots and voting equipment, undervotes, overvotes, civil rights and disenfranchisement, provisional ballots, voter fraud and intimidation, and military and overseas ballots. We have also included the entire contents of our CD-ROM title on the Florida 2000 Bush versus Gore election recount cases with full Supreme Court coverage (which sells separately). Every aspect of the Supreme Court cases is covered – petitions, oral argument transcripts, briefs, and opinions.

There is detailed coverage of the Help America Vote Act (HAVA), the Voting Rights Act and the enforcement activities of the Department of Justice, the work of the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) and the Federal Voting Assistance Program (FVAP), and the Office of Special Counsel related to the Hatch Act. Coverage of the Federal Election Commission is notably thorough, with complete information on campaign finance reports, reporting forms and filing information, historical demographic statistics and reports, constitutional and statutory provisions, regulations and reports on the Bipartisan Campaign Reform of Act of 2002 (BCRA, McCain-Feingold), political parties, voter registration (including the Voter Registration Act – Motor Voter) and much more. This DVD-ROM uses next-generation search technology that allows complete indexing and makes all PDF files on the disc fully searchable. The massive scope of this material is truly awesome!

In addition, there are historical voting tables from Congressional elections, and election statistics gathered by the House from 1920 to 2002; House lobbying disclosure forms, and Senate election material.

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This digital document is an article from Policy Studies Journal, published by Thomson Gale on February 1, 2006. The length of the article is 5835 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

Citation Details
Title: "Colorblind" policy in black and white: racial consequences of disenfranchisement policy.
Author: Holona Leanne Ochs
Publication:Policy Studies Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 34 Issue: 1 Page: 81(13)

Distributed by Thomson Gale.
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