Try, just try, to follow what's going on here.
From Chris's original post at the top, second sentence:
The national Right to Vote Campaign calls on Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell to allow the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections (ODRC) to provide written notification to people on parole that they are eligible to vote under Ohio law. Blackwell's inaction is preventing the voting rights notification of as many as 100,000 potential voters who may have been misinformed of their rights by local Ohio election boards.[underline mine]
Informing people who have a right to vote under state law that they are eligible to vote doesn't violate any law of the state, as the state already says that they have the right to vote. Stonewalling an attempt to notify people of their legal rights for political reasons is despicable.
Disseminating wrong or incomplete information with the intent to disenfranchise ought to get a public servant fired. Such as (also from Chris's article):
Illustrating the extent of this misinformation, the Cincinnati-based Prison Reform Advocacy Center (PRAC) filed suit in federal court yesterday in effort to remedy the disfranchisement of thousands of eligible voters in the Akron area of Summit County. Summit County distributes written notification that Ohio law cancels the voter registration of citizens with felony convictions. Because the letter does not state that according to state law, citizens with felony convictions are eligible to re-register to vote upon release from incarceration, the effect of the notification is to disfranchise eligible Akron voters for life.
Other examples follow, if you care to read the article.
I think that the Dems position is that any decison made by people of Masschusetts should apply to all other states.
Thank you for the laugh.
I think that my position is that any decision made by the people of a state ought to be applied equally to all the people who live in that state, and that currently decisions concerning voting rights of citizens who have been convicted of felonies are not being applied equally. I think that that position is being expressed and pushed by the organizations advocating for ex-cons and prisoners.
Have you an issue with a state government clearly explaining its own state laws to all its citizens?