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August 3, 2026 at 01:02 AM
Spanberger Restores Voting Rights to 66,085 Virginians with Felony Convictions
Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger announced Friday, July 31, that her administration has restored voting rights and other civil rights to 66,085 Virginians with past felony convictions since she took office in January, according to a press release from her office and reporting from Royal Examiner.
The restored rights include the ability to vote, serve on a jury, run for public office, and become a notary public, per the release. Spanberger called it a reversal of "my predecessor's efforts to deny Virginians their fundamental rights."
The Youngkin Comparison
Former Gov. Glenn Youngkin, a Republican who left office in January, restored voting rights to fewer than 10,000 people over his full four-year term, according to Virginia Public Media and confirmed by Democracy Docket. Youngkin ended the streamlined, largely automatic restoration process used by his three predecessors and required individual applications instead.
His administration maintained every application got individualized review. Royal Examiner reports Democrats and voting-rights advocates criticized both the slow pace and the lack of publicly disclosed criteria for who qualified.
The numbers before Youngkin were dramatically
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