Senate votes to restore voting rights to four people previously convicted of disenfranchising felonies

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Senate votes to restore voting rights to four people previously convicted of disenfranchising felonies

The state Senate on Wednesday agreed to restore voting rights to four people who have completed their prison sentences and paid restitution for disenfranchising felony convictions.  “I think we all have failed at some point in our lives,”  Democratic Sen. Juan Barnett of Heidelberg said on the Senate floor. “I think we all have asked for forgiveness. And these individuals now who are before us on these suffrage bills are asking us to forgive the…