Governor Reynolds will issue order on felon voting rights
Governor Kim Reynolds will issue an executive order that automatically restores felon voting rights before the November election.
“We’re working on that right now, sitting down with various groups, listening to what they think is important what is contained in that executive order,” Reynolds said today in Osage, “and then I’ve got my legal team working on it.”
Iowa is now the only state that permanent bars paroled felons from voting unless the governor approves their voting rights application. Reynolds has met twice with the Black Lives Matter protesters to discuss using her executive authority to grant felon voting rights and she said things were “a little bumpy” at the beginning.
“We’ve got people who are new to the process and I don’t mean this in a bad way, but just not familiar with who can do what, how it is implemented, how important it is to get it done right,” Reynolds said.
https://www.radioiowa.com/2020/06/16/governor-reynolds-will-issue-order-on-felon-voting-rights/
