*ALERT * - Public Hearing to allow FELONS to vote in WI elections

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Assembly PUBLIC HEARING - Committee on Corrections and the Courts
Thursday, August 27, 2009
10:00 AM, 225 Northwest, State Capitol

Assembly Bill 353
Relating to: restoring the right to vote to certain persons barred from voting as a result of a felony conviction and changing the information required on voter registration forms.
By Representatives Grigsby, Schneider, Parisi, Hilgenberg, Pocan, Young, Pasch, Roys, Black, Turner, Fields, Kessler, Berceau, A. Williams, Toles, Sinicki, Pope-Roberts and Zigmunt; cosponsored by Senators Taylor, Coggs, Miller and Risser, by request of Restore the Vote Wisconsin NOW Coalition. (ACLU)

This bill also...
Currently, an applicant for voter registration must affirm 1) whether he or she has been convicted of a felony for which he or she has not been pardoned and, if so, whether the applicant is incarcerated or on parole, probation, or extended supervision; and 2) whether the applicant is disqualified on any other ground from
voting.

This bill deletes the requirement that an applicant provide any information relating to a felony conviction but retains the requirement that an applicant affirm that he or she is not disqualified on any ground from voting.

This bill also requires the Department of Corrections (DOC), the Government Accountability Board, and the Director of State Courts to include in their ongoing training programs a discussion of the changes in law produced by this bill and to offer the training to judges, attorneys, election officials, employees of DOC, and the public.

FULL TEXT OF BILL