Contact Your Virginia State Delegate
Support the amendment to the Virginia state Constitution that the House of Delegates may take up as early as TUESDAY, JANUARY 14:
HJ2 - The Amendment would guarantee that people who have been disenfranchised due to a felony conviction will have their rights automatically restored upon completion of their sentences, without additional steps or paperwork after they are no longer incarcerated, and to ensure people with disabilities never lose their rights without an appropriate judicial finding. This is another step in the long process to get this amendment added to the Virginia Constitution. It will have to be passed this year by the House and Senate and then passed again in the 2026 Session before it goes to the people to vote in November of 2026. See LIS | HJ2 | RIGHT TO VOTE
Some talking Points
- Virginia is a former Confederate state that explicitly tried to block Black people from voting in the 1902 Constitution, and today it’s the harshest state in the country when it comes to taking away people’s right to vote.
- Representative democracy depends on all of us being represented at the ballot box.
- Virginia is the harshest state in the country when it comes to taking away people’s right to vote.
- Virginia is the ONLY state in the country that permanently takes away someone’s voting rights when they’re convicted of a felony – then requires them to individually petition the governor to get them back.
YOU ARE CONTACTING THE DELEGATES AS AN INDIVIDUAL, NOT AS SOMEONE OFFICIALLY REPRESENTING THE LEAGUE. |