They paid their debts to society. Nebraska still might not let them vote.
Four months ago, and 15 years after he got out of prison, Thomas Moore voted in his first presidential election.
He picked former President Donald Trump in Nebraska’s Republican primary, and he told everyone he knew that he’d voted. It took a trip through a washing machine to get the “I Voted” sticker off his shirt. Over the past 15 years, Mr. Moore’s earned a Ph.D. and opened and sold three businesses. He now co-owns a mental health agency in Florida and teaches courses on entrepreneurship in prisons and at a local community college in Lincoln, Nebraska.
But with Nebraska pushing back against allowing those with felony convictions to have a newly regained right to vote…
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