"Mark J. Reed" wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 08:43:39PM í, Joe wrote:
> > What do you mean by 'felons'?
>
> "Felon" is a technical term for someone who has been convicted of
> a crime in a particular category, called a "felony", which is more
> serious than the category of "misdemeanors". People who have ever
> been convicted of a felony in this country lose their right to vote -
> at least in Federal/national elections; the others are up to
> the individual states.
Permanently?
They don't get it back after they've served their sentence?
David Barrow