Kentucky activists step in to deliver on the promise of voting rights restoration
A coalition led by formerly incarcerated Kentuckians is working to inform and register people whose voting rights have been restored.
Source: kentuckylantern.com
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Kentucky Activists Step In to Deliver on the Promise of Voting Rights Restoration
After the governor restored hundreds of thousands of people’s rights in 2019, a coalition led by formerly incarcerated Kentuckians is working to inform people of their rights.
Source: boltsmag.org
Many felons left off state roles despite push for voting rights
Nicole Lewis and Andrew R. Calderon The Marshall Project Only a fraction of the thousands of formerly incarcerated people whose voting rights were restored in time for the 2020 election made it back on to the voter rolls in four key states — Nevada, Kentucky, Iowa and New Jersey, a Marshall Project analysis found. Yet none of the states analyzed registered more than 1 in 4 eligible voters who were formerly incarcerated. That's significantly lower than the registration rate among the general public, where almost 3 in 4 eligible voters registered in each state. In Iowa — the last state wit...
Source: thehawkeye.com