Think Progress: Now, as the presidential primary descends upon his state, Meade is gathering signatures for a ballot initiative to amend the state constitution to allow Floridians convicted for non-violent crimes to automatically have their voting rights restored after completing … Continue reading
Category Archives: felon voting
News from Ky: Governor Matt Bevin issued an executive order Tuesday suspending former governor Steve Beshear’s restoration of voting rights to non-violent felony offenders. … Continue reading
Spencer Woodman deep dive at The Intercept. … Continue reading
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The Prison Gerrymandering Project responds to Adam Liptak: The Evenwel plaintiffs seek to entirely exclude all non-citizens from redistricting counts, regardless of their residence in, and strong ties to, the community in which they are counted. By contrast, the plaintiffs … Continue reading
Miami Herald: Florida’s prison population is fast becoming a point of contention in the Legislature’s attempt to redraw the state’s congressional districts. The last Census counted more than 160,000 people in Florida correctional facilities, and they cannot vote. But they … Continue reading
Release: In a ruling last year, the Alameda Superior Court concluded that low-level offenders who are subject to mandatory supervision or post-release community supervision under the Public Safety Realignment Act are eligible to register to vote under Article II, Section … Continue reading
Release: William & Mary Law School’s Revive My Vote is pleased to announce it has received a grant of $230,000 through the Knight News Challenge, a grant program aimed at better informing voters and increasing civic participation before, during, and … Continue reading
The latest from Va. … Continue reading
NYT editorial: What is the logic behind state laws that deny the vote to people who have been convicted of a felony, even after they are released from prison? The short and easy answer is: there isn’t any. For a … Continue reading
MSNBC reports. … Continue reading
Ari Berman writes. … Continue reading
Allegra Chapman blog. … Continue reading
Zack Roth for MSNBC. … Continue reading
Richmond Times Dispatch editorial. … Continue reading
Alan S. Gerber, Gregory A. Huber, Marc Meredith, Daniel R. Biggers and David J. Hendry have written this article for AJPS. Here is the abstract: Funding for this research was provided by Yale University and the Institution for Social and Policy Studies. … Continue reading
News from VA: “Gov. Terry McAuliffe plans to announce today that he will shrink the time violent felons must wait to seek reinstatement of their voting rights and will remove some offenses from that list.” … Continue reading
Brent Staples NYT Editorial Observer column. … Continue reading
See this press release. … Continue reading
Charlotte Observer on the convicted mayor who forgot felon voting was illegal. (Cue Steve Martin) … Continue reading
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Miami Herald on this report from the Sentencing Project. … Continue reading
A report in the Sun-Sentinel. … Continue reading
The new poll from libertarian Reason magazine says that “73 percent of Americans favor restoring voting rights to nonviolent drug offenders who have served their sentences, with strong majorities among Democrats, Independents, and Republicans.” And yes, they polled beyond the … Continue reading
Press release (Prisoners of the Census). Order. … Continue reading
According to this story, the idea has some bipartisan support, including from Sen. Rand Paul. … Continue reading
Derek Muller mulls. … Continue reading
Emily Bazelon writes for Slate. … Continue reading
News from Wisconsin: “Of the 29 cases that have gone to prosecutors, one has been dropped. In that instance, the district attorney found the felon and voter had the same name (or perhaps alias), address and birth date, but not … Continue reading
Press release: An Alameda County Superior Court judge today ruled that Secretary of State Debra Bowen illegally stripped tens of thousands of people of their voting rights two years ago. His ruling said people on Post Release Community Supervision (PRCS) and … Continue reading
Think Progress reports. … Continue reading
AP: “Iowa elections officials will continue to bar convicted felons from voting despite a landmark state Supreme Court ruling that suggests not all of them lost their voting rights, a spokesman said Wednesday.” … Continue reading
Times Dispatch: “Gov. Terry McAuliffe announced today that he will shrink the time violent felons must wait to seek reinstatement of their voting rights and will remove some offenses from that list.” … Continue reading
Ryan Koopmans: We didn’t have to wait long for the Supreme Court to decide its most important case of the term. Last Tuesday, the justices heard arguments over whether a second OWI offense is an “infamous crime” under the Iowa … Continue reading
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Press release: U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD) has introduced a bill, S. 2235, the Democracy Restoration Act that would reduce recidivism rates by restoring voting rights to individuals after they have served their time and have been released from incarceration. … Continue reading
AP: A former drug offender who believed her voting rights had been restored when she cast a ballot last year was acquitted of perjury Thursday, a public rebuke of Iowa’s two-year investigation into voter fraud. The 12-member jury took less … Continue reading
Project Vote release. … Continue reading
Kentucky.com reports. … Continue reading
Demos press release. … Continue reading
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WSJ oped: The U.S. attorney general told us that statistics can be read to show that felon disenfranchisement laws actually promote recidivism. He said that such laws, which vary from state to state, are rooted in outdated notions going back … Continue reading
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NYT reports. MORE from HuffPo’s Ryan J. Reilly. … Continue reading
LA Times reports. … Continue reading
The Des Moines Register reports. … Continue reading
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A Chapinblog. … Continue reading
WaPo reports. … Continue reading
Richmond Times-Dispatch: Gov. Bob McDonnell today will announce that he is automatically restoring the voting rights of nonviolent felons on an individual basis. The sweeping administrative action – while not an instantaneous blanket restoration – is as far as the … Continue reading