upheld Mississippi's permanent voting ban for individuals with felony convictions outlined in the Mississippi's Constitution. The State's Constitution was adopted on November 1,1890, marking the ...

Nearly 50,000 people were disenfranchised under Mississippi’s felony voting ban between 1994 and 2017, and about 59% of them ...

RIGHTS AND ENACT CHANGE FOR THE FUTURE. 16 WAPT'S KYNDALL JONES HAS THE STORY. GRASSROOTS ORGANIZATION WE MUST VOTE HELD "RIGHT TO RESTORE- A PANEL DISCUSSION ON FELONY VOTING RIGHTS" FEATURING ...

The panel had said Mississippi’s ban on voting after certain crimes violates ... Two lawsuits in recent years have challenged Mississippi’s felony disenfranchisement. Attorneys representing ...

Who Can and Can’t Vote in Mississippi: A Guide to the State’s Lifetime Voting Ban This guide offers details about the ... white supremacists used felony disenfranchisement to suppress the Black vote.

Such a strategy would allow the party to actually win the popular vote more often this ... it – reinstated a Jim Crow-era felon disenfranchisement law in Mississippi. Virginia’s own 1901-02 ...

These Jim Crow-era laws included a lifetime voting ban on any Mississippi resident convicted ... similar voting laws for people convicted of a felony — and each of them strip voting rights ...

Nebraska’s attorney general not only cast doubt on a newly enacted law, but also on the state’s longstanding policy of ...

Thousands of Nebraskans with felony convictions on their records are waiting for the state supreme court to make a decision ...

As Floridians prepare to cast their votes in the upcoming primary election on Aug. 20, many are wondering what ever happened to the restoration of felons’ voting rights. Nearly 1.5 million ...