Restoration of Voting Rights

On July 26, 2012, at the regular meeting of the Prince William County Democratic Committee held at the McCoart County Building in Prince William, VA a special program will be presented by Marc Mauer, Executive Director of the Sentencing Project, a national expert on sentencing and restoration of rights and Bobby Vassar, Minority Counsel to the House Judiciary Committee Sub-Committee on Terrorism and Former Chairman of the Virginia Parole Board.  The special program will look at Virginia’s record on restoration of voting rights and comparisons to other states, as well as what would need to be done to change Virginia’s existing policy.

Facts about Virginia:

378,000 disenfranchised

55% of the disenfranchised are African American

Only Florida and Texas have more disenfranchised citizens

State          Population          Total Disenfranchised           % Disenfran.

CA              37,253,000          283,000                                 0.76%

GA                9,688,000          284,000                                  2.93%

NJ                 8,792,000         127,000                                  1.45%

NY              19,378,000         122,000                                  0.63%

NC                9,535,000           73,000                                  0.77%

PA              12,831,000           42,000                                   0.32%

VA                8,001,000         378,000                                   4.72%

  For More Information contact Harry W. Wiggins, Chairman, Prince

William County Democratic Committee at hwiggins01@yahoo.com

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