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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A state appeals court is restoring the voting rights of about 100,000 local jail inmates across the state who are serving a year or less for felony convictions.
The state said it would not appeal the decision from the 1st District Court of Appeal. The affected inmates were eligible to vote until last year, when the state disenfranchised them.
For three decades, California's secretary of state had interpreted that the state Constitution barred voting by those in state prisons and those on parole.
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