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      At least our sister state to the West is now going to restore some voting rights (though it took, naturally, a Federal Court ruling to make it happen.) The order requires Mississippi to restore voting rights to people who were blocked from voting even though they had completed their sentences for certain felonies:

“This is a tremendous victory for the state of Mississippi,” said SPLC Mississippi State Office Director Waikinya Clanton. “People have paid their debt to society and have been oppressed from exercising their voting rights for far too long. This is a huge win in the fight to restore dignity and respect to the voice of the disenfranchised voter in Mississippi.”

FULL SPLC News Release is HERE.

     Alabama, of course, is one of the handful of states that still refuse to restore voting rights because of similar laws. Sigh.