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Nebraska Supreme Court to hear arguments over felon voter registration ban [Video]

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LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) – The Nebraska Supreme Court has decided to take up the case which challenges Secretary of State Bob Evnen’s directive to not register Nebraskans with past felony convictions, Civic Nebraska announced Wednesday.

Oral arguments for the case have been scheduled for Aug. 28.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Nebraska and national law firm Faegre Drinker brought the challenge on behalf of three individual plaintiffs and Civic Nebraska, a nonpartisan, nonprofit group, on July 29.

The legal team wants the Nebraska Supreme Court to compel Evnen to issue voter registration applications according to voter restoration laws and to stop disqualifying voters with past felony convictions. They also want local election commissioners to allow felons who have completed their sentences to register to vote. They asked the court to bypass lower courts to speed up the process.

This lawsuit responds to Evnen’s recent directive, following Attorney General Mike Hilgers’ opinion, to halt registering felons who haven’t been pardoned. Hilgers said only the Nebraska …

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