Leah Aden, senior counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, called [Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe’s] restoration of voting rights “courageous.”
“This is a key civil rights issue, that more than 5 million in our country can’t vote because of a felony conviction,” Aden said. “What’s amazing about these laws is that the governor has to resort to doing what he did.”
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