Analysis & Commentary
Voting After Criminal Conviction
ACLU Sues Alabama on Ballot Access
NY Times article highlights the newly filed ACLU lawsuit against Alabama election officals for disenfranchisement of people who have been labeled to committed a crime of “moral turpitude.”
Authored by: Adam Nossiter, NY Times
– 07/22/08
Expanding Democracy in Florida
Editorial discusses the harshness of state laws, particularly in Florida, which disenfranchises ex-felons.
Authored by: Editorial Staff
– 06/30/08
Ex-felons, homeless are part of state voting process
The Michigan Citizen highlights the importance of its current laws that allow for voting rights for ex-felons to be restored automatically after release from prison.
Authored by: Eric T. Campbell
– 06/30/08
Out of Jail, On the Rolls
Editorial references Brennan Center Restoring the Right to Vote report in making the case for restoring voting rights upon release from prison.
Authored by: Boston Globe Editorial Staff
– 06/24/08
A Matter of Simple Justice
The Roanoke Times endorses Governor Kaine’s efforts to restore voting rights and maintains that voting rights expansion is really a matter of “simple justice"--not partisan interests.
Authored by: The Roanoke Times
– 06/18/08
Right to Vote? Restore Citizenship
West Virginia paper endorses post-incarceration voting rights restoration and the Democracy Restoration Act.
Authored by: The Charleston Gazette
– 05/27/08
About the Law Enforcement & Criminal Justice Advisory Council
The Right to Vote Project established the Brennan Center Law Enforcement & Criminal Justice Advisory Council in June 2007. The Advisory Council was born out of a Brennan Center convening that brought law enforcement and criminal justice leaders to New York University School of Law to discuss voting rights restoration from a reentry and public safety perspective.
– 05/16/08
New York State Voting FAQ
FAQ about voting eligibility in NY for people with a criminal record.
– 05/01/08
Restoring Felons’ Right to Vote Sensible, Fair
In this Lexington Herald-Leader op-ed, the Executive Director of the American Probation and Parole Association praises KY Gov Beshear’s efforts to ease the voting rights restoration process.
Authored by: Carl Wicklund
– 03/23/08
Charity for None?
This editorial calls Gov. Steve Beshear’s efforts to streamline the voting rights restoration process for formerly incarcerated individuals “a step toward fundamental fairness” and endorses House Bill 70, a proposed constitutional amendment to allow automatic rights restoration.
Authored by: Courier-Journal Editorial
– 03/12/08