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  • Jan 12, 2009, 06:02 AM
    Lund_vivek
    Section 145
    What is under Law Act No 145
  • Jan 12, 2009, 06:21 AM
    stevetcg

    What state or country? US federal law? Please be MUCH more specific.
  • Jan 12, 2009, 06:45 AM
    excon
    Hello l:

    Kentucky Constitution
    Section 145
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    Persons entitled to vote.

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    Every citizen of the United States of the age of eighteen years who has resided in the state one year, and in the county six months, and the precinct in which he offers to vote sixty days next preceding the election, shall be a voter in said precinct and not elsewhere but the following persons are excepted and shall not have the right to vote.

    1. Persons convicted in any court of competent jurisdiction of treason, or felony, or bribery in an election, or of such high misdemeanor as the General Assembly may declare shall operate as an exclusion from the right of suffrage, but persons hereby excluded may be restored to their civil rights by executive pardon.

    2. Persons who, at the time of the election, are in confinement under the judgment of a court for some penal offense.

    3. Idiots and insane persons.

    Text as Ratified on: November 8, 1955.
    History: 1955 amendment was proposed by 1954 Ky. Acts ch. 2, sec. 1; original version ratified August 3, 1891, and revised September 28, 1891.

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    Anything else? Yes, as Steve pointed out, there are a LOT of other section 145's.

    excon

    PS> If idiots can't vote in Kentucky, how do they elect anybody??

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