Students at Rutgers–Newark Law School Learn First Hand the Challenges of Voting Faced by Prisoners Awaiting Trial
| What: | Students from Rutgers School of Law– Newark deliver absentee ballots to the Essex County Board of Elections from eligible voters who are temporarily detained in the Essex County Jail. |
| When: | 7 – 8:30 am, Tuesday, November 4, 2008 |
| Where: | Hall of Records, 465 Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard, Newark, NJ 07101 |
| Background: | Students in Professor Frank Askin’s Constitutional Litigation Clinic at Rutgers School of Law–Newark have spent the past six weeks helping to register eligible voters temporarily detained in the Essex County Jail, Delaney Hall, and Logan Hall; secure absentee ballot applications for them; and navigate a detailed process for delivering the completed ballots to the County Clerk. |
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