AL.com: Alabama Legislature approves bill that would restore 'many' felons' voting rights
"This bill is a step in the right direction," Danielle Lang, deputy director of voting rights at the Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit Campaign Legal Center, said in a Thursday statement. "With a stroke of her pen, Governor Ivey could enfranchise many Alabamans that have been wrongly denied the right to vote by the state's longstanding, arbitrary process of disenfranchisement."