New Mexico Denied Voting Rights To Some With Felony Convictions, Despite Reforms
Last March, New Mexico adopted the New Mexico Voting Rights Act, establishing that anyone convicted of a felony can vote as long as they...
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Oct 162 min read
Nebraska Supreme Court Says Citizens With Felony Convictions Can Vote
Nebraska’s top election official had no authority to declare unconstitutional a state law that restored the voting rights of those who...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 92 min read
Many Jail Inmates Can't Vote Even Absent A Criminal Conviction
Voting should be an accessible privilege for all Americans. In reality, voters face confounding rules that change from one state to the...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 32 min read
From Behind Bars, Some People Follow Elections Closely
Some prison advocates consider voting registration and the right to vote keys to a successful re-entry. For newly released people,...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 272 min read
No Need for Alabama to Produce Electronic Records of Felons Struck From Voting Rolls, Court Rules
The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday that Alabama has no duty to electronically disclose the names of convicted felons who...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 202 min read
New Mississippi State Law Enabling Voting In Prisons Faces Obstacles
A new Mississippi law clarifies that some people held in jail or prison may vote in elections, but widespread confusion and a tangle of...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 242 min read
Mississippi Law To Prevent Black People From Voting Was Not Meant To Be Punitive, AG Argues
A provision of the 1890 Mississippi Constitution designed to prevent Black people voting was not meant to be punitive, the office of...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 41 min read
Path to Voting Difficult for Those With Felony Convictions in TN
In at least 35 states, those with felony convictions can vote again after their full sentence is complete, and several states have eased...
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Crime and Justice News
Nov 22, 20232 min read
Flurry of Election Cases Hit Courts, Law Enforcement
A federal judge in Pennsylvania ruled on Monday that mail-in ballots received on time but are undated should be counted, arguing that a...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 19, 20231 min read
Report: Two Million Felons Have Regained Voting Rights Since 1997
A new report from The Sentencing Project found that state felony disenfranchisement reform has succeeded in expanding voting rights to...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 6, 20232 min read
Divided Court Voids MS Permanent Removal Of Felon Voting Rights
Mississippi violates the U.S. Constitution’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment by permanently removing voting rights from people...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 24, 20232 min read
TN Felon Disenfranchisement Rules Just Got Tougher
Tennessee has one of the highest rates of disenfranchisement in the United States, thank to more than 9% of the voting age population's...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 27, 20232 min read
Virginia Convicts Seek To Regain Their Voting Rights
People disqualified from voting in Virginia because of their criminal records filed a lawsuit Monday against Gov. Glenn Youngkin and...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 27, 20232 min read
Voting Rights Advocates Turn to Voting Behind Bars
People serving sentences for felony convictions lose their right to vote in most circumstances. Detainees awaiting trial or serving...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 7, 20222 min read
Advocates Push Voting Access for Incarcerated
With only a few states and territories allowing currently incarcerated people to vote, activists in recent years have expanded efforts to...
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Crime and Justice News
Sep 2, 20221 min read
Pro-Reform Victims Group Launches Voter Drive
A national crime victims advocacy group that favors criminal justice reform is mounting a get-out-the-vote campaign targeting 100,000...
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Crime and Justice News
May 12, 20221 min read
Texas Court Orders Review of Woman's Illegal-Voting Conviction
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Wednesday ordered a lower court to review the case of Crystal Mason, who was sentenced to prison...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 29, 20222 min read
North Carolina Judges Rule Felon Voting Ban Unconstitutional
North Carolina’s law banning many people with felony records from voting after they get out of prison is unconstitutional, a state court...
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