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VA: Voting rights for people with non-violent felony convictions dies without even a vote

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

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Voting rights resolution dies in House committee Del. Onzlee Ware sponsored a bill to help restore voting rights to nonviolent felons. By Michael Sluss RICHMOND -- Without discussion or debate, a House of Delegates committee on Friday hurriedly voted down a proposed constitutional amendment that would allow the General Assembly to pass a law restoring the voting rights of nonviolent felons who have completed their sentences. "I thought they should have heard the bill," said Del. Onzlee Ware, D-Roanoke, the sponsor of House Joint Resolution 628. "I don't have a problem with them voting against me ... but, especially with something as important as the right to vote, I think we should have spent more time on it." Ware's resolution would amend the state constitution so that the legislature could set conditions for the restoration of voting and other civil rights for nonviolent felons who have fulfilled their sentencing obligations...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 12, 2009 (boomark / email).