Nebraska AG Just Decides To Override Felony Voting Rights Law

And this, kids, is why it's so important to vote blue up and down the line. Because Republican AGs around the country are working hard to deprive citizens of their voting rights, like this asshole in Nebraska who put a screeching halt to the right of past felons to vote. Via Bolts Magazine:

That’s because two Republican elected officials in Nebraska—Attorney General Mike Hilgers and Secretary of State Bob Evnen—halted implementation of the new law, shutting down new registrations for people with past felonies and throwing into question the voting rights of tens of thousands of other Nebraskans who, until last month, were legally, unambiguously eligible to vote.

Nebraska voting rights advocates maintain hope that the actions of Hilgers and Evnen will be reversed soon, but they also worry that profound, lasting damage will have already been done: this registration shut-down has prompted so much confusion and fear, they say, that it could cause many people to disengage entirely with the democratic process.

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