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that people who have completed their criminal sentences can vote, saying the decision meant that thousands more will be able to participate in the
Nebraska’s conservative Supreme Court issued its ruling on Oct. 16, marking the latest decision in a trend in recent years, even on the part of Republicans, to either give the formerly incarcerated their voting abilities back or to better define their states’ existing laws on the matter. “This is justice,” Jane Seu, counsel at the ACLU of Nebraska, said in a statement of the court decision. “Given the sheer scale of disenfranchisement that this decision corrects, there is no question that it will be remembered as one of our state’s most consequential voting rights decisions.”
“It’s always a cause of the Left to re-enfranchise these people, but I’ve never yet seen an example where you do it and suddenly you can say, oh, because of this, it moved in a particular direction,” Olsen said. “I tend to think that the sort of person who gets themselves arrested for a felony that requires the suspension of their voting rights tends not to be the sort of person who is highly civically engaged.
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