A new Tennessee law has eased up on two longstanding financial hurdles for people with felony sentences who want their voting rights back.
The other includes a unique requirement among states that they must have fully paid their child support costs.
The Republican-supermajority Legislature approved the Democratic-sponsored change, which now lets people prove they have complied for the last year with child support orders, such as payment plans.
The legislation also unties the payment of all court costs from voting rights restoration.
Advocates say loosening these two rules marks the biggest rollback of restrictions to voting rights restoration in decades.
