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Aug 15, 2024 - Lincoln -  Nebraska's top election official said he won't remove convicted felons who registered to vote under a 2005 law...

Aug 14, 2024 - Lincoln -  The Nebraska Supreme Court is set to hear a lawsuit seeking to force Secretary of State Bob Evnen to register voters with past felony convictions under a new state law. 

Aug 11, 2024 - The right to vote is a cornerstone of democracy, an emblem of freedom and equality upon which the United States was founded.

Aug 11, 2024 -  Nebraska voting rights activists and voters are suing state election officials for refusing to comply with a state law allowing people with felony convictions to register to vote after completing their sentence without delay. 

Jul 29, 2024 - Omaha, Neb. (AP) -  The American Civil Liberties Union of Nebraska has filed a lawsuit challenging top election officials’ defiance of state laws that restore the voting rights of those who’ve ever been convicted of a felony. 

Jul 29, 2024 - Lincoln -  Voting rights advocates sued Nebraska Secretary of State Bob Evnen on Monday, arguing that he unconstitutionally instructed county election officials to ignore a new state law letting people convicted of felonies vote after serving their sentence. 

Jul 23, 2024 - Attorney General Mike Hilgers' nonbinding opinion that a new law restoring voting rights to released felons is unconstitutional is beyond disappointing.

Apr 23, 2024 -  April is Second Chance Month and many Nebraskans are celebrating passage of a bipartisan voting rights restoration bill and its focus on second chances. 

 Apr 20, 2024 - HASTINGS, Neb. (KSNB) - Nebraska’s Voting Rights Restoration Coalition announced on Friday a public education campaign on Nebraska’s new voting rights law. 

Apr 19, 2024 -  A few dozen advocates gathered Friday on the steps of Nebraska's Capitol to cheer the passage...

Apr 19, 2024 -  LINCOLN — Roughly 7,000 Nebraskans today can directly benefit from a newly passed state law that eliminates a two-year waiting period and immediately restores voting rights to felons upon completion of their sentence, advocates of the law said Friday. 

Apr 19, 2024 -  Washington, D.C. —  A Nebraska bill that restores voting rights to people with felony convictions after they’ve completed their sentence has become law in the state, but without the governor’s signature.