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People in custody currently use absentee ballots to vote. Though roughly 90% are eligible because they have not been convicted of a felony, a much smaller percentage of inmates actually cast ballots.
Critics cited the turnover at the upper levels of the Correction Department as further evidence that Commissioner Louis Molina is doing the bidding of the powerful jail unions.