From the UK Telegraph.
Excerpt:
The European Court of Human Rights upheld a previous ruling that a blanket ban on inmates being able to vote was unlawful.
However, the court signalled that the UK government could decide which prisoners should be enfranchised, meaning serious offenders such as murderers and rapists could be excluded.
Judges may even be handed discretion to decide which criminals are allowed the vote.
The Government now has six months to comply with the ruling or face a raft of challenges and huge legal costs.
The decision will spark fury among MPs who voted overwhelmingly last year to not lift the 140 year blanket ban.
The case, now eight years old, has been at the centre of a deepening row in the UK over the influence of European judges on domestic law.
Ministers and MPs have insisted the decision on whether prisoners in a country can vote is a political one not a matter for the European court.
Last February, MPs backed a motion opposing the European judgment by a 234 to 22.
The vote was not binding but the Government has used it as evidence that Parliament’s wish is to maintain the ban.
Prisoners overwhelmingly vote for parties that are left-of-center, like the Democrats.
WINTERY KNIGHT 
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