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December 19, 2019

NJ Restores Voting Rights to Residents on Probation or Parole
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In news on voting rights, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy has signed
legislation to restore voting rights to more than 80,000 residents on
probation or parole. The measure will take effect in March. Meanwhile,
in Georgia, officials have removed more than 300,000 registered voters
from the rolls. State officials say the voters were "inactive" and that
the move is part of a routine maintenance. But voting rights activists
say the purge, only three months before Georgia's primary election, is
undemocratic and part of a longer history of voter suppression in
Georgia.


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