Adam is Right to Vote Director at FairVote.

Patrick Michels of The Texas Observer has a great blog post on Texas Governor Rick Perry’s veto of legislation that would have mandated that the Texas Department of Criminal Justice inform individuals who have been released from prison that their voting rights have been restored. This common sense legislation (passed with over 80 percent support in both chambers), has no fiscal impact and is an important step in returning civil rights to people who have served their debt to society.

Michels suggests that Gov. Perry vetoed the law for partisan reasons–what do you think? Is the governor playing politics with civil rights or he is doing what he thinks is right?

Other posts by Adam

• Election Deception and, of course, long lines... - November 4th, 2008
• VoterStory.org - November 3rd, 2008
• Organize After Election Day - October 31st, 2008
• National Report Shows Big Problems in Big Counties - October 27th, 2008
• New Report Shows Virginia May Have Election Day Problems - October 20th, 2008
• YouTube Wants You to "Video Your Vote" - October 16th, 2008
• Colorado May Have Election Day Problems - October 6th, 2008
• New FairVote Report Gives New Mexico Elections Mixed Review - September 8th, 2008
• New Study: Missouri May Experience Long Lines in November - August 28th, 2008
• NYTimes Features Upcoming FairVote Report - July 21st, 2008