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Virginia Voting Rights Restoration | Revive My Vote

Virginia has recently changed the voting rights restoration process for people with prior felony convictions. As more information becomes available, we will help provide you with the very latest information on how to get your right to vote back! The first step is still to “Check Your Status” below.

Restore Your Vote: I Have A Felony Conviction. Can I Vote? | Campaign Legal Center

With the help of this website, you will no longer have to wonder whether you have the right to vote and will no longer have to ask, “can I restore my right to vote?”

Nolef Turns Resource Page

We will list resources throughout Virginia that are available for those with justice involvement, as we get permission from community partners. Local, state, and federal resources that are public information will be posted as we become aware of them and they become available.

Fair Elections Center Letter in Support of HJ2

Restoring the right to vote to persons with felony convictions who are no longer incarcerated gives them a second chance at becoming invested members of their community

Lucas Della Ventura, THE HISTORY OF FELONY DISENFRANCHISEMENT & RESTORATION OF CIVIL RIGHTS IN VIRGINIA: 1830-2024

Since The Late 1800s, Virginia Has Remained Home To Some Of The Highest Rates Of Felony Disenfranchisement In The Nation. Enshrined In Virginia’s Constitution, Virginians Convicted Of A Felony Are Permanently Stripped Of Their Civil Rights, Unless The Governor Restores Their Rights

Erin Kelley, Racism & Felony Disenfranchisement: An Intertwined History, BRENNAN CTR. FOR JUST. (May 9, 2017)

The United States stands alone among modern democracies in stripping voting rights from millions of citizens on the basis of criminal convictions. It wasn’t until the end of the Civil War and the expansion of suffrage to black men that felony disenfranchisement became a significant barrier to U.S. ballot boxes.

A.E. Dick Howard, Who Belongs: The Constitution of Virginia and the Political Community, 37 J.L. & POL. (2022)

George Mason’s famous Declaration of Rights for Virginia (1776) highlights the idea of community. The document declares that government is “instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security of the people, nation, or community.”

Helen A. Gibson, Felons and the Right to Vote in Virginia: A Historical Overview, 91 VA. NEWS LETTER (2015)

This article examines felony disenfranchisement and recent developments in Virginia in comparison with other states and traces its history in the years following the Civil War

Nicole D. Porter & Morgan McLeod, Expanding the Vote: State Felony Disenfranchisement Reform, 1997-2023, SENT’G PROJECT (Oct. 18, 2023)

Since 1997, 26 states and the District of Columbia have expanded voting rights to people living with felony convictions. As a result, over 2 million Americans have regained the right to vote.

Voting Rights Restoration Efforts in Virginia: A Summary of Current Felony Disenfranchisement Policies and Legislative Advocacy in Virginia, BRENNAN CTR. FOR JUST. (Apr. 3, 2023)

A summary of current felony disenfranchisement policies and legislative advocacy in Virginia.. On March 16, 2021, former Gov. Ralph Northam took executive action to automatically restore the right to vote to all Virginians who are not currently incarcerated.

Christopher Uggen et al., Locked Out 2024: Estimates of People Denied Voting Rights, SENT’G PROJECT (Oct. 10, 2024)

Laws in 48 U.S. states ban people with felony convictions from voting. In 2024, an estimated 4 million Americans, representing 1.7% of the voting-age population, will be ineligible to vote due to these laws, many of which date back to the post-Reconstruction era.

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