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Prisoner Lacked Standing to Challenge Georgia’s Failure to Send Absentee Ballot to Jail
Loaded on Aug. 15, 2012
published in Prison Legal News
August, 2012, page 13
The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals held on February 2, 2012 that a former Georgia jail prisoner lacked standing to complain that state and local officials had failed to mail his absentee ballot to the jail, which prevented him from voting.In anticipation of the November 4, 2008 presidential election, ...
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