Gov. Spanberger announced that since she took office in January, she has prioritized returning civil rights to tens of thousands of former felons in the state.
In her first six months in office, Gov. Abigail Spanberger restored the right to vote to more than seven times as many formerly imprisoned Virginians as former Gov Glenn Youngkin did during his four-year term.
Gov. Abigail Spanberger has restored voting and other civil rights to more than 60,000 Virginians since taking office in January, reversing the more restrictive restoration process adopted by her predecessor and reopening voting access for thousands of people with past felony convictions, her admini…
(WFXR)- Governor Abigail Spanberger restored the voting rights to 66,085 Virginias who were previously incarcerated. Virginia is one of three states that gives its governor full discretion on whether or not to restore the civil rights on a convicted felon.
Governor Abigail Spanberger's office announced Friday morning that voting rights have been restored for 66,085 Virginians who were formerly incarcerated.
Virginia Democrats are welcoming criminals back to the ballot box. Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) has restored voting rights to 66,085 felons in her first six months in office. That’s 56,000 more than former Gov.
Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger announced Friday that her administration has restored the voting rights of more than 66,000 Virginians with felony convictions since she took office in January.
Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) announced that her administration has restored voting rights to more than 66,000 Virginians who have "past felony convictions."
Shortly after Virginia removed more than 6,500 noncitizens from its voter rolls, Gov. Abigail Spanberger said she has restored voting rights for 10 times that many convicted felons in the state. Virginia’s state constitution permanently disenfranchises convicted felons but gives the governor’s offic…
Gov. Abigail Spanberger just restored voting rights to 66,000 Virginia felons in seven months. Virginia already ran this exact experiment once before, and the fallout still shows up in state records
Virginia Democratic Gov. Abigail Spanberger has boasted about the over 66,000 people with past felony convictions she has restored voting rights to. This is similar to something a former governor of the state, Terry McAuliffe, who was buddies with Hillary Clinton did.
Terry McAuliffe tried this same playbook in 2016 – and the Virginia Supreme Court shut him down. Now Abigail Spanberger just did it again, three months before the midterms. And what she
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