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Northam restores civil rights to more than 69,000 Virginians
2 minutes Posted Mar 19, 2021 at 10:00 pm.
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Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam recently restored the civil rights of more than 69,000 Virginians, using new eligibility criteria that mirror a proposed change to the Constitution of Virginia that would automatically restore voting rights to individuals upon completion of their sentence of incarceration. Northam announced that going forward, any Virginian released from incarceration will qualify to have their rights restored, even if they remain on community supervision. This change builds on a number of bipartisan reforms that have been made to the restoration of rights process over the last decade, including streamlining the application and eliminating the waiting period and the...

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