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Iowa- Looming Setback on Voting Rights

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Iowa Looming Setback on Voting Rights From the Sentencing Project: January 4, 2011 Newly-elected Governor Terry Branstad has vowed to rescind a 2005 executive order that has restored rights to an estimated 50,000 persons in the state who have completed their felony sentences. Prior to 2005, Iowa maintained one of the most restrictive policies in the nation, imposing a lifetime ban on voting unless rights were restored by the governor on a case-by-case basis. But the executive order issued by Governor Tom Vilsack immediately restored rights to all persons who had completed supervision, and has since done so on an ongoing basis. As described in the Des Moines Register an appeal to the new governor by 20 civil liberties and religious organizations called on him to maintain the current policy, arguing that it promotes fairness and successful reentry...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on January 06, 2011 (boomark / email).