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Felons were banned from voting for life in Nebraska until the state passed LB 53 in 2005. This created the two-year waiting period after a person completed their sentence.
A federal appeals court has upheld its decision against two Native American tribes challenging North Dakota's redistricting ...
Legislators voted to restore voting rights to more people convicted of felonies, but a dispute over that law’s constitutionality created pre-election confusion. By Mitch Smith Nebraska’s ...
The Nebraska Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday in a case that could upend voting rights for tens of thousands of people convicted of felonies in the state and threaten a law that’s been on ...
L.B. 53 was estimated to restore voting rights to 59,000 Nebraskans when passed 14 years ago. Under a conservative estimate, then, these two laws reenfranchised at least 66,000 people.
OMAHA, Neb. — Nebraska’s top election official had no authority to strip voting rights from people convicted of a felony, the state Supreme Court ruled Wednesday in a decision that could add ...
By MARGERY A. BECK. OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska’s top election official had no authority to strip voting rights from people convicted of a felony, the state Supreme Court ruled Wednesday in a ...
Native Vote. On Thursday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit declined to reconsider its controversial ruling ...
Moore told UPI that having his voting rights restored in 2018 was empowering. He is registered to vote in Nebraska. However, he does not plan to vote unless he is explicitly told he can by his ...
More than 70,000 people convicted of felonies had their voting rights restored in Nebraska as a result of the 2005 law, according to the ACLU’s written brief.
Nebraska's Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that Republican Secretary of State Bob Evnen lacked the authority to deny voting rights to individuals convicted of felonies.. This ruling could add over ...
- 801 - NEBRASKA SUPREME COURT ADVANCE SHEETS 317 NEBRASKA REPORTS STATE EX REL. SPUNG v. EVNEN Cite as 317 Neb. 800 Christopher L. Eickholt, of Eickholt Law, L.L.C., for amicus curiae Nebraska ...