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"US Supreme Court rejects challenge to Mississippi lifetime ban on voting by felons," by Andrew Chung, Reuters, January 27, 2025
"Clean Slate Act law goes into effect in New York, sealing certain criminal conviction records," Eyewitness News ABC 7, November 16, 2024
"New laws restore voting rights to residents with felony convictions," by Amanda Hernández, Stateline, October 23, 2024
"Voting Rights Confusion Keeps Formerly Incarcerated People from Casting Ballots," by Caleb Bedillion, The Marshall Project, October 19, 2024
"Locked Out 2024: Four Million Denied Voting Rights Due to a Felony Conviction," by Christopher Uggen, Ryan Larson, Sarah Shannon, Robert Stewart and Molly Hauf, The Sentencing Project, October 10, 2024
"Many people in jail have the right to vote. So do many felons," by Jaclyn Diaz, NPR, October 09, 2024
"‘A Life Sentence.’ How Mississippi’s Forever Voting Ban Keeps Thousands From the Polls.," by Caleb Bedillion, The Marshall Project, October 01, 2024
"Paxton’s election fraud charges upend lives but result in few convictions," by Arelis R. Hernández and Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Washington Post, September 02, 2024
"Latino Civil Rights Group Demands Inquiry Into Texas Voter Fraud Raids," by Edgar Sandoval, New York Times, August 25, 2024
"Texas to reconsider case of Black woman sentenced to five years for trying to vote," by Sam Levine, The Guardian, August 21, 2024
"Racial Disparities in Colorado’s Voting Bans Highlighted in New Report," The Sentencing Project, August 06, 2024
"Biden Administration Boosts Fair Housing Access for People With Criminal Records," by Meaghan McDermott and Somil Trivedi, The Appeal, July 25, 2024
"How Some States Are Making It Harder to Register Voters," by Michael Wines, The New York Times, July 26, 2024
"Alabama, civic groups spar over law restricting assistance with absentee ballot applications," by Kim Chandler, Associated Press, July 31, 2024
"U.S. Appeals Court stops felon voter restoration change from going through," by Adam Friedman, Tennessee Lookout, July 01, 2024
