Voting Rights

Ohio Valley ReSource

Formerly Disenfranchised Kentucky Voters Cast Their Ballots

For many in the Ohio Valley, voting is a choice, a right they are free to exercise if they want to. But for Jackie McGranahan and the more than 175,000…
Beshear Restores Voting Rights To More Than 140,000 Kentuckians With Nonviolent Felonies

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear fulfilled another of his “week one” campaign promises on Thursday by signing an executive order to automatically restore voting…
Beshear Orders Voting Rights Restored For Non-Violent Kentucky Felons

Gov. Steve Beshear has signed an executive order restoring voting rights to non-violent felons in Kentucky who have completed their sentences.Beshear made…
State Capitol

Voting Rights, Gambling and Ballot Questions on Legislature's Agenda

Even as thousands of Kentuckians marched on the state Capitol last week and called for voting rights for ex-felons, lawmakers have yet to reach an accord…