A 124-Year-Old Voting Ban Designed to Silence Black Virginians Is Finally Gone
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While Democrats took control of both chambers of Congress, governors’ mansions, and state legislatures across the country, Virginia overturned its “Jim Crow-era lifetime ban” on voting for people with prior felony convictions. Voters approved a ballot amendment that restores voting rights to people with felony convictions immediately upon their release, along with two other ballot
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A 124-Year-Old Voting Ban Designed to Silence Black Virginians Is Finally Gone
While Democrats took control of both chambers of Congress, governors’ mansions, and state legislatures across the country, Virginia overturned its “Jim Crow-era lifetime ban” on voting for people with prior felony convictions. Voters approved a ballot amendment that restores...
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