RICHMOND, Va. — Thousands of Virginians will not be voting in the congressional #midterm elections on Tuesday, not because they’re not interested in politics, but because they lost their voting rights after a felony conviction. The #Commonwealth is one of only four states that has permanently denied voting rights in such cases.
In 1980, 2.6 percent of Virginians were affected by felony #disenfranchisement. By 2016, that number had grown to 7.8 percent, according to the Sentencing Project, a nonprofit organization focused on criminal justice reform. That comes out to more than 500,000 voters.
Christopher Green, 58, lost his voting rights in 1998 when he was convicted of a #felony in Virginia. . .
Read more at https://wtvr.com/2018/11/01/felony-disenfranchisement-virginia/
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