Sen. Mike Seymour, a Republican from Vancleave, was the only person in the 52-member Senate who voted against all of the suffrage restoration bills. Reporters attempted to ask Seymour why he opposed ...
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 ...
Former President Donald Trump is preparing for his first of four upcoming criminal trials next week, and a single conviction ...
Kenneth Almons says he began a sentence in a Mississippi prison just two ... and said restoring voting rights “is a fundamental human rights issue.” “Let us remember that the fight for ...
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 ...
As things stand, individuals within the confines of a prison are entitled to vote, but unrestricted mobility is a ...
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 ...
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?” ...
"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 ...
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