This story is from CBS News by Caitlin Huey-Burns and Tyler Kendall:

When Tasha Williams registered to vote this year, she couldn’t contain her excitement. “I ran through the parking lot like, oh my God! I’m gonna vote!” she said. 

She’s one of about 36,000 people in Louisiana who stand to benefit from a law signed by the governor last year to restore voting rights for people who were previously incarcerated. 

Williams, who served time for a nonviolent drug offense, says not having that right felt like being behind bars all over again. “It made you question yourself, and it made me kind of angry,” she said. “I just did three years in jail…I thought I was finished with prison.”

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