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[msarcher]

Yesterday I pinned on my Obama button and joined other supporters up in Harlem to register voters.  I drifted briefly from team to team deciding that a pair or trio of white people in Harlem would be regarded with more suspicion than a mixed group and ended up with two beautiful ladies who could have almost been twins.  They were within a year of

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[deanominator]

Virginia is infamous for having terrible laws; one of them is that convicted felons are *permanently* disenfranchised. Virginia still only counts 3/5ths of the votes of its black residents because 19.76% are permanently disenfranchised.

State-by-state:
http://www.aclu.org/votingrights/exoffenders/statelegispolicy2007.html#text
http://www.sentencingproject.org/StatsByState.aspx

[msarcher]

That's great that you were able to reach out to him. I wonder if there should be somekind of broader information campaight so that people will know

I recall feeling ambivalent about registering voters in Chester but there we were much more the uppity young college students thinking we know what's best for people. Many of the people I talked with revealed a vast chasm of alienation between outsider and insider in the community. Here I'm both more legitimately present, if not living in the community at least in the adjacent one, and the people are more accustomed to outsiders coming through for a variety of purposes I think.