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Prisoner Voting Population Grows as Illinois Bill Extends Polling Sites to County Jails
Loaded on Nov. 1, 2021
published in Prison Legal News
November, 2021, page 47
Filed under:
Voting Rights.
Location:
Illinois.
The push to restrict voting rights and limit access to polling locations has gained momentum in the past several months. Advancing the false claims of excessive fraud and a rigged election by former President Donald Trump, state legislatures across the country have passed laws reducing voting hours, eliminating mail-in ballots, ...
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