More People With Felony Convictions Can Vote, but Roadblocks Remain

This story is from PEWTrusts by Lindsey Van Ness:

More than ever, Eric Harris is mindful of the elected officials around him: The school board members deciding whether his children will go back to the classroom, the sheriff influencing how officers interact with people like him, and the U.S. president steering the country’s coronavirus response.

This year has given Harris lots of reasons to vote. And this year, he can. 

With three felonies on his record, the 41-year-old had been barred from voting in Iowa — the last state that had permanently banned people convicted of felonies from voting without the governor’s approval — until an executive order from Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds in early August changed that. “It means a lot to me,” Harris said.

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