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| | HUMAN EVENTS ONLINE: The National Conservative Weekly Since 1944 |
 | | Democrats are using a study made by two sociologists, one at the University of Minnesota and the other at Northwestern University, suggesting that, since 1978, seven U.S. Senate races plus the 2000 presidential election would have turned out differently if felons had been allowed to vote. |
 | | To try to give convicted felons the franchise, Democrats are playing the race card, asserting that state laws have a "disparate impact" on fls and Hispanics and therefore violate equal-protection guarantees. |
 | | Ten ex-convicts, including a convicted killer, are suing to void the state law, because 81 percent of the prison population, 75 percent of parolees and 52 percent of probationers are fl or Hispanic. |
| www.humaneventsonline.com /article.php?print=yes&id=2921 (754 words) |
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