>Just to clarify some previous posts, once a felon has served his/her term and is released, they can vote in 20 states (including NC):
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>http://www.aclu.org/votingrights/exoffenders/statelegispolicy2007.html#text
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>That came to my attention when I was reading this article:
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>http://www.fayobserver.com/article?id=293805
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>(Myron Pitts was interviewing an ex-felon who had just voted in the primary)


Speaking of voter rights, here is an opinion piece from today's paper. The number of states is even about the same, 19 IIRC from another article.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/13/opinion/13tue1.html?_r=1&ref=opinion&oref=slogin