Category Archives: felon voting
NYT Editorial on Prison Based Gerrymandering
Here.
“In Virginia, Slow Going So Far on Rights Restoration for Felons”
“Rand Paul wants to restore felons’ voting rights”
“McDonnell to speed rights process for nonviolent felons”
Richmond Times-Dispatch:
Gov. Bob McDonnell today will announce that he is automatically restoring the voting rights of nonviolent felons on an individual basis.
The sweeping administrative action – while not an instantaneous blanket restoration – is as far as… Continue reading
“Va. panel announces findings on restoring voting rights of former felons”
WaPo:
A Virginia committee announced options Tuesday for streamlining the restoration of former felons’ voting rights, including actions the governor and legislature could take now to advance the process.
The possibilities, the committee said, include recruiting ex-felons who have… Continue reading
“Escape from the ‘Devonian Amber’: A Reply to Voting and Vice”
Alec Ewald has written this Essay for the Yale Law Journal Online. Here is the abstract:
This Essay replies to Richard Re and Christopher Re’s Voting and Vice. That article, recently published in The Yale Law Journal, demonstrates that… Continue reading
“McDonnell urged to order rights restoration”
News from Virginia.
“Equal Protection Challenge to Virginia’s Felony Disenfranchisement Provision Survives Summary Judgment”
State of Elections: “The US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia on Friday granted the State’s summary judgment motion on substantive and procedural due process challenges to Virginia’s voter reinstatement process for convicted felons, as well as… Continue reading
“Virginia Governor Restores Scooter Libby’s Voting Rights”
27% Think Voting Too Easy, 61% Want to Restore Felon Voting Rights
“‘I voted early’ sticker leads to arrest, fraud charges”
News from Fla.
“Over 200 organizations ask Census Bureau to develop solutions to ‘prison gerrymandering'”
Press release: “Today, more than 200 civil rights, voting rights and criminal justice organizations sent a letter calling on the U.S. Census Bureau to seize a timely opportunity to research alternative ways to count incarcerated people in the decennial Census.”
“Non-violent felon voting rights measure killed by House panel”
Times Dispatch: “A House of Delegates subcommittee this morning effectively killed proposals to automatically restore the rights of nonviolent felons, something [Virginia] Gov. Bob McDonnell called for in his State of the Commonwealth address.”