SAVANNAH — Leon Brown is trusted enough to drive a tractor-trailer inside one of the nation's busiest seaports more than six years after being released from prison. But he's not allowed to vote in Georgia because of a law rooted in the years after the Civil War, when whites sought to keep blacks from the ballot box.
Georgia stops voting by felons using broadest reading of law
Rooted in the years after the Civil War, when whites sought to keep blacks from the ballot box