Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear (D) signed an executive order Thursday restoring the right to vote and the right to run for public office to hundreds of thousands of felons convicted of nonviolent crimes.
This order was one of the first signed by the sixty-third governor of Kentucky, who was just sworn into office on Tuesday after defeating Matt Bevin for the position. Beshear’s order echoed the goals of an order signed by his father, Steve Beshear, who was the governor of Kentucky in 2015. The original order was undone by Bevin, the intermediate conservative governor.
