In TN, they can petition the convicting court to have their rights restored. I think they can only do this once though, and now a politician who is a convicted felon can not run for office. This happened after we had a city councilman who was convicted of taking a bribe, then went to prison, got out, won his seat again, and got convicted of . . . yep bribery. Only in Memphis, or Washington DC, or Atlanta, or . . . .



>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)