On October 20, Alabama state officials signed papers indicating that they were wrong to have prevented Reverend Kenneth Glasgow from visiting prisoners for the purpose of registering them to vote. Alabama prohibits felons and ex-felons from registering to vote only if they have been convicted of “crimes of moral turpitude”. Most crimes are not in that category. Glasgow had been permitted to visit prisons and jails to register people to vote if they had not commited crimes of moral turpitude, and then the state had revoked permission, after the Alabama Republican Party had complained. Glasgow had then sued in federal court. That case is Glasgow v Allen, middle district, 2:08-cv-801. The case will be dismissed now that Alabama officials have acknowledged that Glasgow had a right to do what he had been doing. Ironically, however, it is now too late for Glasgow to carry on his work this year.