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| Registered to Vote, Felons Get Investigated |
| By marshalltribune.com |
| Published: 04/07/2010 |
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District Attorney Chuck Crawford has the names of eight felons who have registered to vote in Marshal County and he's opened an investigation into whether any of them registered after they were convicted, according to the state prosecutor's office for this and three other counties. It's illegal for felons to register to vote if they've not had their citizenship rights restored by a chancellor or a circuit court judge, according to State Elections Coordinator Mark Goins. In fact, if such an ex-convict signs a voter registration card and checks a box to say no, indicating they have not been convicted of a felony, then that's evidence available to prove the ex-con committed another felony. Crawford's office received the names of the eight Marshall County felons from the Marshall County Election Commission as a result of a commission meeting late last month, Election Commissioner Don Wright said. Elections Administrator Jo Ann Henry received the list from the Tennessee Department of State's Office of the Elections Coordinator. It had asked the Tennessee Department of Corrections to compare its list of prisoners with the list of registered voters. An initial analysis of the eight names indicates: three of the named individuals voted in 2008; one registered in 1990; one was purged from the voter registration rolls through a routine process of removing names of people who don't vote for a certain period of time; and three, maybe four, would appear to be subject to closer investigation and possible prosecution, according to discussion among members of the Marshall County Election Commission. Read More. |
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