Voting Rights
Re your April 2 article on voting rights and felony convictions: In California and most other states the right to vote is not permanently lost if a person commits a felony crime. Once released from prison and off parole voting rights are restored. That’s as it should be.
The 12 states that forever deny the civil right of voting should stop that practice. And if these backward legislatures refuse, then the national government should step in to make democracy equal for all.
CHUCK LEVIN
Los Angeles
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