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Protect Every Pennsylvanian's Right To Vote!
Submitted by Jen Murphy on Fri, 01/27/2006 - 3:06pm.
Protect Every Pennsylvanian's Right To Vote!
HEY PHILLY--Come to Harrisburg on February 1st and Voice Your Opposition to H.B. 1318!
No need for id requirement.
Stop further disenfranchisement of people convicted of felonies.
Lobby Day to Stop House Bill 1318 is Wednesday, February 1st!
Buses Leave Project H.O.M.E., 1515 Fairmount @ 7:30am & 24th and Lehigh @ 7:30am
Buses return by 5pm
For more info contact: Jennine Miller, Project H.O.M.E., 215-232-7272, x3042
*On the bus, organizers and team captains will explain how the the lobbying will work.
Felon disenfranchisement keeps the GOP in power in PA
Pennsylvania -democracy incarcerated-
http://mysite.verizon.net/aahpat/pdi/workxpdi.htm
PA annual prison costs
$ 1,345,590,000 PA 2005-06 budget
$ 33,242,000 fed contribution
$ 1,378,832,000 ttl
http://www.budget.state.pa.us/budget/lib/budget/2005-2006/enacted_budget...
How America's right wing has successfully subverted our democracy -The castration of the Voter Rights Act-
http://leftindependent.blogspot.com/2005/08/how-americas-right-wing-has....
Ancilliary to the felon disenfranchisement issue:
Pennsylvania's annual retail illicit drug market value $ 5,968,592,244
PP&L annual rev. $ 6.20B
http://leftindependent.blogspot.com/2006/01/pennsylvanias-illicit-drug-m...
Struck
I have been going over the house Bill 1318 and all of the references to felon disenfranchisement are struck out of the legislation. http://www2.legis.state.pa.us/WU01/LI/BI/BT/2005/0/HB1318P3328.pdf
For the record, the PA constitution has this to say about disenfranchisement in Pennsylvania.
"Elections shall be free and equal, and no power, civil or military, shall at any time interfere to prevent the free exercise of the right of suffrage." Constitution of Pennsylvania, DECLARATION OF RIGHTS, Article I, ß5.
There are tens of thousands of Pennsylvanians disenfranchised and imprisoned in PA. Most are taken from diverse urban pluralistic districts to rural white conservative districts where most prisons are. There they are counted in the census population for apportionment of legislative districts and poverty block grants where they have not vote in the district.
Pennsylvania -democracy incarcerated-
http://mysite.verizon.net/aahpat/pdi/workxpdi.htm
struck out
I want to apologize for the 'STRUCK' post above. The version of hte bill that the legislature had on their web site on Sunday night had the felon provisions struck from the bill. Now its back in. What a bunch of deceptive anti democracy cretins the PA legislature are.
Lets be honest, the felon legislation is the GOP incumbency legislation.
Pennsylvania -democracy incarcerated-
SEE: http://mysite.verizon.net/aahpat/pdi/workxpdi.htm