RICHMOND, Va. — Unlike most people in Virginia seeking to have their voting rights restored, Blair Dacey was able to tell her story directly to Gov. Glenn Youngkin.
When she was 17, she’d come to a friend’s defense in a fight with the friend’s husband. Dacey said she kicked the husband in the head, and he later died from brain injuries. It was an accident, she said, but a jury convicted her of second-degree murder.
She was pardoned in the final days of former Gov. Ralph Northam’s term, and went on to work for a state senator — which is how she met Youngkin, at an event.
