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As of 2008, over 5.3 million people in the United States were denied the right to vote due to felony disenfranchisement. [18] In the national elections in 2012, the various state felony disenfranchisement laws together blocked an estimated 5.85 million felons from voting, up from 1.2 million in 1976.
Corey Oden of Birmingham, Alabama voted for the first time on Election Day 2024 thanks to Free Our Vote which helps felons get their voting rights restored. Oden, 41, called voting for the first ...
Florida Amendment 4, also the Voting Rights Restoration for Felons Initiative, is an amendment to the constitution of the U.S. state of Florida passed by ballot initiative on November 6, 2018, as part of the 2018 Florida elections.
Washington, D.C. passes a law to allow incarcerated felons to vote. [65] People with a felony conviction have their right to vote in Iowa restored with some restrictions and each potential voter must have completed their sentence. [65] People with a felony conviction in New Jersey can vote after release from prison; citizens on parole or ...
In addition to losing the right to vote, Florida law deprives convicted felons of certain Civil Rights including the right to serve on a jury, hold public office, and restricts the issuance and ...
An estimated 59,000 Nebraskans with felony convictions were immediately granted the right to vote under the 2005 law and another 38,000 have met the conditions to be eligible to vote again in the ...
According to the Sentencing Project, as of 2010 an estimated 5.9 million Americans are denied the right to vote because of a felony conviction, a number equivalent to 2.5% of the U.S. voting-age population and a sharp increase from the 1.2 million people affected by felony disenfranchisement in 1976. [101]
Signed by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham in March 2023, the Voting Rights Act says convicted felons can vote the day they get out of prison and instituted an automatic voter registration system ...