The state Senate on Wednesday agreed to restore voting rights to four people who have completed their prison sentences and ...
“I couldn’t be happier!” exclaimed one of their coaches, Jackson Erpenback, “they did an amazing job. The Georgetown team is ...
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 ...
A federal judge ruled Tennessee needs to update its forms and process for voting rights restoration. The judge also found ...
Civil rights advocates say Mississippi needs to simplify the process of restoring voting rights to people convicted of some ...
Former President Donald Trump is preparing for his first of four upcoming criminal trials next week, and a single conviction ...
The current suffrage restoration process in Mississippi requires a legislator to submit a bill on each person’s behalf.
A felony conviction in at least one of four criminal trials could bar the ex-president from casting a ballot in November's ...
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 ...
Norfolk residents discussed everything from voting restoration rights to public defender shortages and substance abuse in prison at a criminal ... “If all three of us get arrested,” Fatehi ...
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?” ...
"This ruling gives us hope not just for Ms. Mason, but for the broader fight for voting rights in Texas," said Christina Beeler, voting rights attorney at the Texas Civil Rights Project ...