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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

But civil rights advocates point out that even the Nebraska Supreme Court acknowledged in 2002 that voting rights restoration “is implemented through statute,” meaning through legislation ...

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 ...

Nebraska Solicitor General Eric Hamilton argues the state's case in front of the Nebraska Supreme Court on Aug. 28, 2024, in a voting rights case brought by the ACLU. (Andrew J. Nelson/Courthouse News ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.