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Why no action on voting rights?

Gov. Steve Beshear did 300 to 1,200 civil rights restoration applications and pardons a year. Gov. Matt Bevin, zero. Why? What happened to doing what’s right?

Michael Smith

Burlington

This story was originally published November 10, 2016 at 5:45 PM with the headline "Why no action on voting rights?."

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