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A number of amendments have been proposed to revamp the requirements for restoration of rights. In 2017, the Virginia Senate passed a constitutional amendment to permanently disenfranchise violent felons, [10] with the Virginia General Assembly being empowered to decide what constitutes a violent felony, [11] but this died in the Virginia House of Delegates Privileges and Elections committee. [12]
Rights restoration is the process of restoring voting rights to people with prior felony convictions who lost their voting rights under felony disenfranchisement. It may also refer to additional civil rights that are taken away upon conviction, such as holding public office and serving on a jury .
As of 2018, most U.S. states had policies to restore voting rights upon completion of a sentence. Only a couple states — Iowa, and Virginia specifically — permanently disenfranchised a felony convict and 6 other states limited restoration based on crimes of "moral turpitude". [15] The US Supreme Court in Richardson v.
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Virginia dropped out of a multi-state voter roll system, then dropped 3400 voters improperly. New bills aim to re-join the system.
It is modeled after the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965, as well as the John Lewis Voting Rights Act (which would restore portions of the federal Voting Rights Act that were revoked in the 2013 Supreme Court case Shelby County v. Holder), and is the first voting rights act enacted in the American South. [a] [1] [2]
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