PORTLAND, Maine -- Inmates at Maine's prisons have been busy registering to vote.
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People says it registered an estimated 200 or more inmates last week.
The NAACP says the effort is the first time there's been a systemwide initiative to register inmates across an entire state. Maine is one of two states that allows felons to vote while in prison. Vermont is the other.
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Rachel Talbot Ross, president of the NAACP chapter in Portland, says the organization will lead another registration drive next summer at county jails, as well as state prisons.
Ross says the recruitment drive isn't about furthering a political agenda. She says it aims to give inmates a voice and get them engaged.
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