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Mentally ill man challenges Missouri over right to vote
AP ^ | 10/8/4 | KELLY WIESE

Posted on 10/08/2004 7:20:58 PM PDT by SmithL

JEFFERSON CITY -- A former law professor with schizoaffective disorder filed a federal lawsuit Friday challenging a Missouri law that denies voting rights to some people who are mentally ill.

Steven Prye, 51, said he moved to St. Louis from Illinois earlier this year and tried to register to vote but was turned down because he has a court-appointed guardian.

Under the Missouri Constitution and state law, those who have a guardian because of "mental incapacity" or are found by a court to be "incapacitated" cannot vote and can face criminal charges if they do.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: lawsuit; mentalilness; votefraud; voting
Who do you think he'd vote for?
1 posted on 10/08/2004 7:20:58 PM PDT by SmithL
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To: SmithL

US prisoner and convicted double murderer Leonard Peltier would be my guess.


2 posted on 10/08/2004 7:26:53 PM PDT by kingu (Which would you bet on? Iraq and Afghanistan? Or Haiti and Kosovo?)
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To: SmithL

Larouche


3 posted on 10/08/2004 7:27:10 PM PDT by escapefromboston
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To: SmithL

Hmmmmm. I am not sure how I feel about this.


4 posted on 10/08/2004 7:28:36 PM PDT by conservative cat
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To: SmithL

"Who do you think he'd vote for?"

His cat.


5 posted on 10/08/2004 7:30:53 PM PDT by Stew Padasso ("That boy is nuttier than a squirrel turd.")
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To: SmithL

Well, if he really wants to vote, he could always move to Dade or Broward County Florida, where competency is just not an issue.


6 posted on 10/08/2004 7:47:36 PM PDT by Colorado Doug
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To: Stew Padasso
His cat

His dog

The little people

...don't feel bad about this one

7 posted on 10/08/2004 7:49:06 PM PDT by mcar
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To: Stew Padasso
And here's his cat


8 posted on 10/08/2004 7:50:43 PM PDT by Centurion2000 (Truth, Justice and the Texan Way)
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To: SmithL

Why is he referred to as a "former" law professor? I would have thought he is eminently qualified to continue teaching, judging by the existing level of competence at today's universities.


9 posted on 10/08/2004 7:51:15 PM PDT by Publius6961 (I, also, don't do diplomacy.)
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To: Stew Padasso

Well, Missouri did elect a dead man to the Senate, you know.


10 posted on 10/08/2004 7:58:31 PM PDT by Constitution Day (That is that and this is this, you tell me what you want and I'll tell you what you get)
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To: Publius6961

Tom Eagleton is still alive?


11 posted on 10/08/2004 7:58:57 PM PDT by Wally_Kalbacken
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To: SmithL

Dick Gephart?


12 posted on 10/08/2004 8:17:39 PM PDT by Dr Snide (vis pacem, para bellum - Prepare for war if you want peace)
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To: SmithL

Wouldn't he have a court appointed guardian because he was judged not capable of making his own decisions? And what is schizoaffective disorder anyway?


13 posted on 10/08/2004 8:49:56 PM PDT by knuthom
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To: SmithL

...denied the right to vote to SOME people who are mentally ill....

The man has a point. Its a fact that Kerry supporters are mentally ill so why should be left out.

;-)


14 posted on 10/08/2004 8:57:00 PM PDT by festus (Proud and Practicing Member of the Pajama Posse)
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To: SmithL

Actually he can't make X's, he only knows Y's. Oops!


15 posted on 10/08/2004 9:12:51 PM PDT by Waco
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To: SmithL

If one is allowed to live alone and make basic decisions for themselves then let em vote. If the person is so mentally ill that they require a caretaker to take them into a voting booth then no......the caretaker should not be allowed two votes.


16 posted on 10/08/2004 9:18:02 PM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But, have a plan to kill everyone you meet. ©)
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