The current suffrage restoration process in Mississippi requires a legislator to submit a bill on each person’s behalf.
The United States ... obliges prison authorities to encourage prisoners to assert their voting rights and to facilitate voting procedures. The only prisoners who may not vote are those convicted ...
Nebraska lawmakers passed a bill Thursday to restore of voting rights of those convicted of felonies upon the completion of ...
Voters had a say on Prop 47 in 2014, when more than 60% voted it into state law. Now, leaders around the state are working to ...
Former President Donald Trump is preparing for his first of four upcoming criminal trials next week, and a single conviction ...
A felony conviction in at least one of four criminal trials could bar the ex-president from casting a ballot in November's ...
In a story published April 17, 2024, about people losing their voting rights after some felony convictions in Mississippi, The ...
In most states, voting rights are automatically ... and in two states even inmates may vote. But Kentucky requires an act of the governor to restore a felon’s right to vote or hold public ...
So why don't those rights count when people do not go to prison or ... t the right to vote, isn't that just a bundle of independent rights in addition to the right to hold office?” ...
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Congress approved the federal act in part to prohibit racial discrimination in voting. However, in November 2023 the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that only the United States attorney ...
“If this is moving down those paths, that’s a good thing,” Walz said. Minnesota Senate President Bobby Joe Champion, a Minneapolis Democrat, is the lead author of the Minnesota Voting Rights ...