{"id":465,"date":"2005-11-09T21:14:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-10T03:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2005\/11\/09\/new-alec-ewald-paper-on-felon-voting-2\/"},"modified":"2005-11-09T21:14:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-10T03:14:00","slug":"new-alec-ewald-paper-on-felon-voting-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2005\/11\/09\/new-alec-ewald-paper-on-felon-voting-2\/","title":{"rendered":"new alec ewald paper on felon voting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sentencingproject.org\">sentencing project<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.union.edu\/ps\/publications\/Ewald.htm\">alec ewald<\/a>, a political scientist at union college, has written some excellent law review articles on felon disenfranchisement. he just completed a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sentencingproject.org\/\">sentencing project<\/a> report on how such laws are administered. in a mail and phone survey he finds much confusion and error in interpreting and administering these ballot restrictions. in <a href=\"http:\/\/rs6.net\/tn.jsp?t=l8s5fqbab.0.9ej7aqbab.fed4i7n6.863&amp;p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sentencingproject.org%2Fpdfs%2Fcrazyquilt.pdf\">a &#8216;crazy-quilt&#8217; of tiny pieces: state and local administration of american criminal disenfranchisement laws<\/a>, he reports that 37 percent of local elections officials interviewed misunderstand state eligibility law. moreover, in at least five states a <em>misdemeanor<\/em> conviction also results in the loss of voting rights (hmmm. maybe i should stop calling it &#8220;felon&#8221; disenfranchisement).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from the sentencing project: alec ewald, a political scientist at union college, has written some excellent law review articles on felon disenfranchisement. he just completed a new sentencing project report on how such laws are administered. in a mail and phone survey he finds much confusion and error in interpreting and administering these ballot restrictions. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}