Mississippi can continue to impose a lifetime ban on voting for people convicted of certain felonies, including some non-violent felonies, the full panel of the U.S. 5 th Circuit Court of Appeals ...

Nearly 50,000 people were disenfranchised under Mississippi’s felony voting ban between 1994 and 2017, and about 59% of them ...

RIGHTS AND ENACT CHANGE FOR THE FUTURE. 16 WAPT'S KYNDALL JONES HAS THE STORY. GRASSROOTS ORGANIZATION WE MUST VOTE HELD "RIGHT TO RESTORE- A PANEL DISCUSSION ON FELONY VOTING RIGHTS" FEATURING ...

Who Can and Can’t Vote in Mississippi: A Guide to the State’s Lifetime Voting Ban This guide offers details about the ... white supremacists used felony disenfranchisement to suppress the Black vote.

The panel had said Mississippi’s ban on voting after certain crimes violates ... Two lawsuits in recent years have challenged Mississippi’s felony disenfranchisement. Attorneys representing ...

If the plaintiffs wanted to eliminate Mississippi's ban, they needed to instead seek a change ... minority of 11 states that still permanently disenfranchise felons for offenses other than ...

Such a strategy would allow the party to actually win the popular vote more often this ... it – reinstated a Jim Crow-era felon disenfranchisement law in Mississippi. Virginia’s own 1901-02 ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A federal appeals court has ruled that Mississippi legislators, not the courts, must decide whether to change the state's practice of stripping voting rights from people ...

Mississippi can continue to impose a lifetime ban on voting for people convicted of certain felonies, including some non-violent felonies, the full panel of the U.S. 5 th Circuit Court of Appeals ...

Nearly 50,000 people were disenfranchised under Mississippi's felony voting ban between 1994 and 2017, and about 59% of them were Black, according to an expert who analyzed data for plaintiffs in a ...