May 03, 2007

Child support requirement

The ACLU of Tennessee will host an instructional seminar today in Nashville to help guide convicted felons through the process of voter registration. The state's general assembly passed a law that streamlined the process last year. But Knoxville Representative Stacey Campfield placed an amendment into the bill requiring that convicted felons pay any overdue child support before they can vote. During today's seminar, the ACLU will try to drum up support for a constitutional challenge to the child support requirement. WUOT's Matt Shafer Powell reports...Listen Now

Posted by mpowell7 at May 3, 2007 05:35 AM | Links to this post
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