MS: Senate votes to restore voting rights to four people previously convicted of disenfranchising felonies
The state Senate on Wednesday agreed to restore voting rights to four people who have completed their prison sentences and paid restitution for disenfranchising felony convictions.
“I think we all have failed at some point in our lives,” Democratic Sen. Juan Barnett of Heidelberg said on the Senate floor. “I think we all have asked for forgiveness. And these individuals now who are before us on these suffrage bills are asking us to forgive them of those things.”
The GOP-majority chamber overwhelmingly approved the bills, and they now head to the House for consideration.
Sen. Mike Seymour, a Republican from Vancleave, was the only person in the 52-member Senate who voted against all of the suffrage restoration bills. Reporters attempted to ask Seymour why he opposed all of the suffrage measures, but he churlishly walked down three flights of stairs without substantively answering the questions.
https://www.newsfromthestates.com/article/senate-votes-restore-voting-rights-four-people-previously-convicted-disenfranchising
