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How Alabama Citizens Are Getting Their Voting Rights Back

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November 19, 2018

1:39 PM EST

Thousands of Alabama citizens are getting their rights back, thanks to the Alabama Voting Rights Project. In 2017, Alabama changed its felony disenfranchisement law which affected plenty of the state’s citizens.

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