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For a 12th year in a row, the U.S. House and Senate will be considering the Democracy Restoration Act, legislation that would restore the right to vote in federal elections to all Americans who have been convicted of felonies but have completed their sentences of imprisonment.
Support for re-visiting the longstanding policy of felon disenfranchisement has been growing across the country. In the past year, jurisdictions including California, Iowa, New Jersey, and Washington, D.C., all took action to reduce or remove denial of the vote to people convicted of felonies.
The practice of stripping the right to vote from those convicted of a felony has a long history in the United States. By the time of the Civil War, more than 20 states had enacted felon disenfranchisement statutes, and today 48 of the 50 states impose some kind of restriction on voting by convicted felons, either during the term of their incarceration, for a defined pe ....

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