March 24, 2006

4 New Books Consider Voting Rights in the U.S.

By DAVID GLENN

FRANCHISE OPPORTUNITIES: This winter, legislators in Maryland have sparred over a bill that would allow felons to vote as soon as they are released from prison. (Under present Maryland law, former felons may not vote until three years after they have completed their parole.) The governor, Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., has pledged to veto the bill if it reaches his desk. "I don't think you reward the franchise to those who commit the most horrific crimes," he told The Washington Times in