In news on voting rights, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy has signed legislation to restore voting rights to more than 80,000 residents on probation or parole. The measure will take effect in March. Meanwhile, in Georgia, officials have removed more than 300,000 registered voters from the rolls. State officials say the voters were “inactive” and that the move is part of a routine maintenance. But voting rights activists say the purge, only three months before Georgia’s primary election, is undemocratic and part of a longer history of voter suppression in Georgia.