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Va. Gov. to Restore Voting Rights to 200,000 Ex-Offenders
In what some will surely call “executive advocacy” (or abuse), the governor of Virginia will sign a staggering number of individual clemency grants to restore the voting rights of thousands of ex-offenders in the state after a court decision Friday threatened to take them away, reports ThinkProgress. In a 4-3 decision late Friday, the Supreme…