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The undersigned national criminal justice reform, faith and civil rights organizations are committed to expanding voting rights to all citizens including people with felony convictions completing their sentences both inside and outside of incarceration.
This year, advocates are hoping to extend the franchise to about 9,000 people currently on probation or parole.
Connecticut should restore voting rights to the formerly incarcerated James Jeter, left Perfecting American democracy demands ending voting bans for persons with felony convictions. Denying people on parole – denying me – the right to vote and have a say, is the denial of my citizenship. I was born on this soil, but this ban says I am a noncitizen. I dwell in a space of civic death, a space void of voice, and full of suppressed inherent rights. Regardless of every stride that I take: a college student, a nonprofit director, a husband, a father, and yet I am somehow, at all times, found la...