Felons and the Right to Vote in Virginia: a Historical Overview

Helen A. Gibson has written a great article for the University of Virginia's Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service titled " Felons and the Right to Vote in Virginia: a Historical Overview " and I urge everyone to take a few minutes and read the article. Gibson does a great job of documenting how the state of Virginia continues to struggle with its legacy of one of the highest disenfranchisement rates in the nation and examines felon disenfranchisement and traces its history in the years following the Civil War , when a sizeable African American electorate emerged and was disenfranchised by various tactics.

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