Restore Voting Rights

It is possible for a registered offender to have their rights restored in Virginia.
Both Non-Violent and Violent classifications, it might just take a few years but it’s worth the wait.
Restore Our Vote, Virginia:
Virginia ACLU
Felony Disfranchisement in Virginia
www.restoreourvote.org
Email-vote@restoreourvote.org OR vote@acluva.org
804-644-8080

If you have been convicted of a non-violent felony and have been released from supervised probation for a minimum of three years, restoring your voting rights only requires the completion of a one-page application to the Secretary of the Commonwealth. In the end the Governor has sole discretion to decide whether or not to restore your rights.
If you have been convicted of a violent felony, drug or election law offense and have been released from supervised probation for a minimum of five years a longer application to the Secretary of the Commonwealth is required. In the end the Governor has sole discretion to decide whether or not to restore your rights.
You must have paid all costs and fines related to your conviction and any costs and fines from traffic court before your application will be considered. Also you cannot have a DWI conviction within the past five years immediately preceding your application.

To Apply to have your Civil Rights Restored, make your Request to the Secretary of the Commonwealth at: http://www.commonwealth.virginia.gov/JudicialSystem/Clemency/clemency.cfm. http://www.commonwealth.virginia.gov/JudicialSystem/Clemency/Gov-Letter-ROR.pdf
http://www.governor.virginia.gov/news/viewRelease.cfm?id=183
http://www.commonwealth.virginia.gov/JudicialSystem/Clemency/2-Year_RoR_Application.pdf
http://www.commonwealth.virginia.gov/JudicialSystem/Clemency/5-Year_RoR_Application.pdf

Form:
http://www.commonwealth.virginia.gov/JudicialSystem/Clemency/RORLongApp.pdf

Restoration of Rights By State:
http://www.sbe.virginia.gov/cms/documents/State_Designated_Voter_Registration_Agencies/feloninfo.PDF

Advancement Project- Virginia
1220 L. St. NW, Suite 850
Washington DC, 20009
(202) 728-9557 ext. 339
http://www.advancementproject.org/category/states/virginia

Richael Faithful- rfaithful@advancementproject.org
Advancement Project’s Virginia Rights Restoration Project List of Contacts
Community-resource for-assistance.pdf

CURE, Citizens United for Rehabilitation of Errants:
Virginia: www.vacure.org

League of Women Voters of Virginia:
www.lwv-va.org

Missing Voter Project, Hampton Roads:
http://www.democracysouth.org/missingvoter/mvpindex.html

Step Up Incorporated:
http://stepupincorporated.com/

The Rutherford Institute:
www.rutherford.org

The Sentencing Project:
www.sentencingproject.org

VA CARES:
www.vacares.org

The Virginia Organizing Project:
www.virginia-organizing.org

Virginia Interfaith Center:
www.virginiainterfaithcenter.org/

Virginia Poverty Law Center:
www.vplc.org

Reports and Studies:

State-Level Estimates of Felon Disenfranchisement in the United States- 2010, by Christopher Uggen, Sarah Shannon and Jeff Manza, July 2012:
http://sentencingproject.org/doc/publications/fd_State_Level_Estimates_of_Felon_Disen_2010.pdf
The report finds that in Virginia one in five African Americans has lost the right to vote because of a felony. That is one of the highest rates in the country and trails behind Florida (23%) and Kentucky (22%).