Felony Re-enfranchisement
December 5, 2011
We are pleased to announce the release of our updated “Virginia Civil Rights Restoration Guide.” The most current guide follows a version released in 2008 designed to help people convicted of felonies restore their civil rights. Virginia is one of only four states in the country whose laws forever strip individuals’ civil rights upon a felony conviction, including their right to vote, unless individually restored by the Governor.
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December 3, 2011
Advancement Project is publishing an updated version of its “Virginia Civil Rights Restoration Guide" to assist disenfranchised people, their families and friends, community leaders, and volunteers with navigating the restoration process. It is the first of a series of community tools offered by Advancement Project to support community members’ efforts to restore their civil rights. As a supplement to the guide, Advancement Project will also offer training for community groups on how to undergo the process starting in January 2012.
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March 16, 2011
By Andrew J. Williams
“This plan will eliminate the darkey as a political factor in this State in less than 5 years, so that in no single county . . . will there be the least concern felt for the complete supremacy of the white race in the affairs of government.” Delegate Carter Glass’s comments to the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1902 were an explicit reference to Virginia lawmakers’ scheme to systematically eradicate Blacks from the state’s electorate.
December 10, 2009
Letter from Representative John Conyers
Representative Conyers wrote to encourage Governor Warner to use his executive power to restore the voting rights of persons with felony convictions who have completed their sentences.
Letter from Congressman Raúl M. Grijalva
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October 27, 2005
This memo discusses the legal authority of the Governor of Virginia to grant an across-the-board restoration of voting rights to all persons with felony convictions in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
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July 4, 2005
This Order was signed by Governor Tom Vilsack of Iowa on July 4, 2005. The Order grants automatic restoration of voting rights to persons with felony convictions who have completed their sentences.
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December 7, 2007
The NBCSL have drafted a resolution in support of the automatic restoration of voting rights for Virginia citizens who have completed sentences for a felony convictions.
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December 10, 2009
- General Information
- Automatic Restoration of Voting Rights (Conditions and Procedures)
- Instructions on Application for a Pardon
- Superior Courts of Delaware listing
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December 1, 2005
No single existing voting rights inequity seems a starker injustice than the plight of people with felony convictions. Felony disenfranchisement laws are state-level rules that strip voting rights from citizens who have been convicted of certain crimes. If you commit a crime, these laws say, you lose the vote. There are no federal guidelines about them, so their harshness varies from state to state.
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December 10, 2009
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