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3 California propositions address criminal justice issues
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Voting rights for paroleesProp 17 would grant California felony parolees the right to vote. Under current laws passed in 1974, Californians convicted of felonies can only vote after they have completed parole.The measure is supported by Equality California, the Harvey Milk LGBTQ Democratic Club, the Alice B.
Toklas LGBTQ Democratic Club, the California Democratic Party, and San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin. (Neither of California's major political parties responded to requests for comment for this story.)"California is only one of a handful of states that denies the right to vote to people on parole but allows people on probation to vote," Samuel Garrett-Pate, the communications director for EQCA, said in a phone interview with.
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11.02 / 09:41
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HIV Discoverer Luc Montagnier Dead at 89
The New York Times reports.His discovery was important but not without controversy. The deadly disease that had first surfaced in 1981 and was eventually given the name of AIDS, for acquired immune deficiency syndrome, was devastating gay and bisexual men, along with certain other populations, but its cause remained mysterious for some time.Some scientists, however, suspected it was caused by a retrovirus, “a kind of germ that slips into the host cell’s DNA and takes control, in a reversal of the way viruses typically work; hence the name retro,” the Times notes.Montagnier, an expert on retroviruses, and his team at the Pasteur Institute did research in 1983 on a lymph node that had been removed from a person with AIDS.
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