They Served Their Time and Now They’re Working to Win Back Right to Vote
[Source: https://www.press-citizen.com/story/news/2019/01/16/area-residents-convicted-felonies-seeking-restoration-right-vote/2584688002/
The Iowa City Press Citizen, 16 January 2019, by Hillary Ojeda]
Doren Walker and Todd Williams, of Kalona and Mt. Pleasant respectively, lost their right to vote after being convicted of felonies in the state of Iowa. But they’re working to change that. They’re two of more than 52,000 Iowans unable to vote despite serving their time in the state, according to Washington, D.C.-based research center The Sentencing Project. Felon voting rights made national headlines in November when Florida residents successfully voted in a measure to restore voting rights for its convicted felons, with a few exceptions. In her Condition of the State address Tuesday, Governor Kim Reynolds mentioned the Florida result and said she doesn’t “believe voting rights should be forever stripped, and I don’t believe restoration should be in the hands of a single person.” (more…)