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Posted on 09/29/2004 11:22:22 AM PDT by areafiftyone
The NAACP has launched a voter registration drive in a county jail in Tennessee, a state where convicted felons lose their right to vote unless they make an application for reinstatement.
The unorthodox voter registration drive, first uncovered by Nashville 99.7 WTN radio host Phil Valentine, was confirmed on Wednesday by Karla Crocker, spokeswoman for Sheriff Daron Hall, who oversees the city's Davidson County jail.
"Just like any other organization that would come to us wanting to register people to vote, we allow those organizations into our facilities," Crocker told NewsMax.com.
But so far, the only organization to attempt to register Davidson's prison inmates was the NAACP, she said.
"We do make it clear to the groups when they come into the jail that they can't bring a political agenda into the facility, but they can come in to register the individuals to vote," she explained.
Serving the greater Nashville area, the Davidson County lock-up houses approximately 1,700 inmates. Crocker estimated that since the NAACP's first visit two weeks ago, the organization had visited about 1,000 inmates.
Crocker stressed that the majority of individuals contacted by the NAACP were eligible to vote, since the jail houses mostly inmates who are being held on misdemeanor charges or were accused, but not yet convicted, of felonies.
She said the Tennessee State Election Commission would be responsible for screening out accused felons who had registered and were later found guilty. The Election Commission would also be responsible for delivering absentee ballots to misdemeanor convicts housed at Davidson.
So far the NAACP has visited only the minimum and medium security wings of the Nashville facility, but Crocker said the group would be permitted to register inmates in the maximum security wing if it wanted to.
A spokesman for the NAACP's national headquarters did not return a call by press time, but an assistant told NewsMax she was unfamiliar with any prison outreach voter registration program.
Radio host Valentine said he was astonished when he discovered the prison vote drive.
"I think it's absolutely amazing that the left is scraping the bottom of the barrel by targeting criminals," he told NewsMax. "We're talking about the NAACP, here. It's sad, but they no longer represent mainstream black Americans."
"If this is going on at the local jail in Nashville, how many other jails are being targeted by the NAACP and other groups?" he wondered.
(Why use a gun to steal when you can use a Democrat?)
Next up?
The city morgues.
Bet it's going on in Memphis where they have the BIGGEST jailhouse population in the State. I sent this to Mike Fleming our Memphis talk host along with all the GOP people I know.
Just the Democrats, rallying their base.
It is now official, the Democratic party is the party of criminals.
LOL - I know, because it's hard to rally dead people - they just flop all over the place.
So this PR flak wants us to believe these people are going to be monitored and prevented from talking up the democratic candidate and agenda and encouraging these inmates to register as democrats? I don't believe this for a second. They are campaigning for kerry in a tax-supported government facility. Totally illegal. If the Bush campaign doesn't look into this, they are fools.
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Boot Hill Bunch for Kerry!
There aren't any laughs to be mined in this situation. This is ugly stuff.
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