“Modern voter suppression is like death by a million cuts,” one voting rights advocate told Truthout.
Records received in response to a lawsuit pertaining to Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s voting rights restoration process expose that the process is completely lacking in consistency or clear standards, preventing thousands of returning citizens from participating in Virginia’s ongoing elections.
In Virginia, a felony conviction automatically results in the loss of certain rights, including a person’s right to vote. The governor has the sole discretion to restore these rights to Virginians.“Felony disenfranchisement is a relic of Jim Crow, and was one of many forms of voter suppression intended to prevent Black Americans from voting,” Ryan Snow, counsel with the Voting Rights Project of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, told.
“This decision will have a severe racially discriminatory impact on Black Virginians in particular — an impact which will further compound already significant socioeconomic disparities by further depriving Black communities of an equal voice in Virginia elections and the resulting policy decisions,” Snow toldAt least three lawsuits have been filed so far challenging what critics believe is an unconstitutional and non-transparent process.
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