Mississippi has enacted unfair barriers that stop former convicts from regaining their right to vote, a new federal lawsuit says. The lawsuit seeks what 40 states already have: automatic or uncomplicated restoration of voting rights once a person completes a sentence for a disenfranchising crime. He's one of the attorneys who filed the lawsuit against the Mississippi secretary of state. The Mississippi Constitution specifies 10 crimes for which convictions remove voting rights, including murder, forgery and bigamy. A state attorney general's opinion later added 12 more disenfranchising crimes, including timber larceny and carjacking.

Source: ABC News March 27, 2018 15:20 UTC