“When someone serves their sentence and pays the price our justice system has set for their crime, they should have their right to vote restored automatically, plain and simple,” Reynolds said during a press conference on Wednesday.
Reynolds said her executive order would restore the “voting rights of some felons.” She added that her order requires Iowans to complete their sentences, and they will still require those who committed felony homicide offenses to apply for voting rights restoration individually.
“This is a cause on which so many Iowans have worked on,” she added.
The order will allow thousands of Iowans to vote in the upcoming November elections, which has significant implications for the reelection of President Donald Trump, Sen. Joni Ernst’s (R-IA) reelection, and the swing congressional districts in the state.
The Des Moines Register wrote that Reynolds had resisted calls to sign an executive order granting voting rights to felons.
More
from Salisbury News https://ift.tt/3gDKYMF
ليست هناك تعليقات:
إرسال تعليق