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| Eligible inmates vote |
| By Newsday |
| Published: 10/24/2008 |
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CONNECTICUT - Connecticut prison officials say that of the handful of state prisoners eligible to vote, only a fraction actually cast absentee ballots. While states such as Louisiana and Georgia are signing up new voters behind bars and encouraging them to cast ballots, Connecticut has no such registration drives in its prisons. A corrections official says as of this week, just under 5,500 of the state's 19,000 inmates were eligible to vote. That includes inmates serving time for misdemeanors and those awaiting trial. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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