More than a quarter-century after Massachusetts voters rescinded incarcerated felons' right to vote, there's another effort to reconsider that decision. Criminal justice and voting rights advocates ...

The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear Virginia's bid to scuttle a lawsuit challenging an 1869 state constitutional provision that imposes a lifetime voting ban on convicted felons, one of ...

State laws governing voter eligibility vary. Nine states imposea lifetime voting ban on convicted felons. In 32 states, felons canvote after serving their sentences and completing parole.

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The Supreme Court turned away Virginia’s appeal on Monday that sought to quash a challenge to the state’s lifetime felon voting ban, allowing the lawsuit to move ahead toward trial.

Thomas Dennis III, a convicted felon, is accused of illegally registering to vote on three occasions between 2006 and 2020.

The challenge to a provision of the state constitution barring convicted felons from voting for life alleges that it violates the 1870 Readmission Act.

The Supreme Court turned away Virginia’s appeal that sought to quash a challenge to the state’s lifetime felon voting ban, allowing the lawsuit based on a Reconstruction-era law to move ahead.