{"id":1742,"date":"2013-05-29T11:52:24","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T17:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/?p=1742"},"modified":"2014-02-12T11:33:50","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T17:33:50","slug":"virginia-reenfranchisement-news-huffpo-op-ed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2013\/05\/29\/virginia-reenfranchisement-news-huffpo-op-ed\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia Reenfranchisement News \/ HuffPo op-ed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/files\/2013\/05\/Virginia_new_sign.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1743\" alt=\"Virginia_new_sign\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/files\/2013\/05\/Virginia_new_sign-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> Two quick felon voting updates:<\/p>\n<p>Most importantly, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesdispatch.com\/news\/state-regional\/government-politics\/article_08d1b42c-c80c-11e2-8950-0019bb30f31a.html\">Richmond Times-Dispatch<\/a> reports that Virginia Governor\u00a0Bob McDonnell will begin automatically restoring voting rights for \u00a0&#8220;nonviolent felons&#8221; beginning July 15. Those convicted of violent crimes must still undergo an application process, following a five-year waiting period. &#8220;Non-violent&#8221; is a problematic definition in practice, but I expect this to be a meaningful change for Virginia. In particular, a switch to an &#8220;automatic&#8221; or default system tends to be far more effective in restoring civil rights than, say, \u00a0&#8220;streamlined application processes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Also, Marc Mauer and I wrote a new\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/marc-mauer\/the-missing-black-voters_b_3280102.html\">Huffington Post<\/a>\u00a0op-ed on race, voter turnout, and felon disenfranchisement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two quick felon voting updates: Most importantly, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reports that Virginia Governor\u00a0Bob McDonnell will begin automatically restoring voting rights for \u00a0&#8220;nonviolent felons&#8221; beginning July 15. Those convicted of violent crimes must still undergo an application process, following a five-year waiting period. &#8220;Non-violent&#8221; is a problematic definition in practice, but I expect this to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[124,85],"class_list":["post-1742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crime","tag-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1742"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1858,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742\/revisions\/1858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}