Expanded Voting Rights
1975: Connecticut (automatic restoration of voting rights upon completion of sentence) Louisiana (probationers received right to vote) Oregon (probationers and parolees received right to vote)
1976: New York (automatic restoration of voting rights upon completion of prison term or parole )
1978: Arizona (automatic restoration of voting rights for first time offenders) Louisiana (parolees received right to vote)
1981: South Carolina (automatic restoration of voting rights upon completion of sentence)
1983: Georgia (automatic restoration of voting rights upon completion of sentence) Texas (automatic restoration of voting rights two years after completion of sentence)
1984: Washington (automatic restoration upon completion of sentence if convicted post- 1984)
1986: Tennessee (automatic restoration upon completion of sentence if convicted post- 1986)
1997: Texas (automatic restoration of voting rights upon completion of sentence)
1998: New Hampshire (inmates received voting rights through state court decision)
2000: Delaware (voting rights restored five years after completion of sentence) Pennsylvania (five-year post-prison waiting period eliminated)
2001: Connecticut (probationers receive right to vote) Nevada (five-year waiting period to apply for pardon eliminated) New Mexico (automatic restoration of voting rights upon completion of sentence)
2002: Maryland (recidivists automatically receive right to vote three years after completion of sentence)
Restricted Voting Rights
1983: Georgia (disfranchised felons convicted in any state)
1990: Florida (disfranchised felons convicted in any court)
1993: Colorado (disfranchised parolees) Nebraska (disfranchised for non-pardoned out-of-state convictions)
1995: Pennsylvania (five-year post-prison voting ban)
1997: Colorado (disfranchised federal inmates and parolees)
1998: Utah ( disfranchised inmates)
1999: Oregon (disfranchised federal inmates)
2000: Massachusetts (disfranchised inmates) New Hampshire (disfranchised1 Year listed may differ from year change became effective.