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Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
Little-Known Law Allows Some Texas Prisoners to Vote by Texas has an estimated 455,000 current and former felons. But no one knows if any of them voted in the November 2024 elections, nor even if any knew that they could. That is thanks to a little-known provision of state law …
Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
GOP Washington Lawmaker Trolls Felon Enfranchisement Proponents by In Washington, newly elected state Sen. Leonard Christian (R-Spokane Valley) wasted little time in introducing a bill in February 2025 to save a building slated for demolition at the state Capitol in Olympia and turn it into a work-release center for state …
Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
En Banc Fifth Circuit Reverses Panel, Holds Mississippi Felon Disenfranchisement Does Not Violate Eighth Amendment by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On July 18, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit reversed an earlier holding by a three-judge panel of the Court, which found that § 241 …
Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
Minnesota High Court Restores Voting Rights of Former Felons by On August 7, 2024, the Minnesota Supreme Court upheld the 2023 Restore the Vote Act (RVA), which returned the right to vote to individuals with felony convictions upon completion of their prison sentences. The law had been challenged a summer …
Nebraska Supreme Court Spanks Attorney General, Orders Felons Be Allowed to Vote by Voting rights for Nebraskans with felony convictions were up in the air until October 16, 2024. That’s when the state Supreme Court ruled against Attorney General Mike Hilgers (R), who had declared a new re-enfranchisement law unconstitutional …
Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
New Mexico Settles Suit Alleging Failure To Implement Expanded Voting For Felons by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso On September 26, 2024, voting rights group Millions for Prisoners (M4P) sued New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver (D), alleging that state policies, practices, and procedures substantially denied access …
Article • December 15, 2024 • from PLN December, 2024
Trump Outpolled Harris in Pre-Election Survey Behind Bars by A July 2024 survey of 11,500 people held in 542 prisons and jails found that 44% supported the candidacy of former Pres. Donald J. Trump (R), who then went on to win a second nonconsecutive term in the White House. His …
Article • December 15, 2024 • from PLN December, 2024
Minnesota Judge Spanked For Ignoring Law Restoring Felon Voting Rights by Just over a year after Minnesota restored voting rights to former felons, the state Board on Judicial Standards (BJS) reprimanded Mille Lacs County District Judge Matthew Quinn on June 27, 2024, for attempting to disenfranchise formerly incarcerated people. Minnesota’s …
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
Colorado Becomes First State to Require Polling Stations in Jails by On May 31, 2024, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) signed S.B. 72 into law, making his the first state in the U.S. to require jails to operate in-­person polling stations for eligible detainees to cast a vote. Some 6,000 …
Florida Court of Appeals Reinstates Voter Fraud Charges Against Ex-Felons by On July 17, 2024, the Third and Fourth District Courts of Appeals of Florida reinstated voter fraud charges against two former prisoners which had previously been dismissed. Ronald Lee Miller was charged with illegally voting as an ex-felon in …
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
Texas Appeals Court Tosses Former Prisoner’s Illegal Voting Conviction by On March 28, 2024, Texas’ Second District Court of Appeals (COA2D) overturned Crystal Mason’s illegal voting conviction, ruling that the state failed to present any evidence of criminal intent by the Black grandmother from Fort Worth to vote illegally in …
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
Michigan Makes Voting Rights Restoration Automatic for Prisoner’s at Release by On November 30, 2023, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmir (D) signed HB 4983, a measure that makes voter registration automatic for state prisoners upon release. With that, the state became the first in the nation to make voter registration the …
Article • January 1, 2024 • from PLN January, 2024
Hurdles to Voting for Ex-Felons Rise in Tennessee and Virginia, Fall in Mississippi by On July 21, 2023, Tennessee announced a tough new rule for ex-felons seeking to exercise their voting rights. State Coordinator of Elections Mark Goins said that anyone with a felony conviction in another state whose voting …
Article • January 1, 2024 • from PLN January, 2024
Maine Ends Prison Gerrymandering by Maine became the latest state to end prison gerrymandering on June 30, 2023, when Gov. Janet Mills (D) signed LD 1704/HP 1093 into law and joined 16 other states to count prisoners at their home address instead of the prison where they are incarcerated. The …
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
Ex-felons on Parole and Probation Now Allowed to Vote in Minnesota by On March 3, 2023, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) signed into law SF26/HF28, also known as the “Restore the Vote” act. The bill, which was passed by Democratic majorities in the state House and Senate, allows ex-felons to …
Article • September 15, 2023 • from PLN September, 2023
Voting Rights Restoration for Virginia Ex-Felons Once Again Subject to Governor’s Whim by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss In a letter to Virginia lawmakers on March 22, 2023, Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) took executive action to roll back voting rights restoration to ex-felons. It is the fourth time since …
Article • August 15, 2023 • from PLN August, 2023
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Washington State Initiative to Expand Jail Ballot Access Faces Local Pushback by David Reutter by David M. Reutter As of January 23, 2023, only $250,000 had been tapped of a $2.5 million allocation made by the Washington legislature in 2022 for grants to counties to ease ballot access for those …
Brief • July 19, 2023
Florida Rights Restoration Coalition v. Desantis, FL, Complaint, Voter Rights, 2023 Case 1:23-cv-22688-XXXX Document 1 Entered on FLSD Docket 07/19/2023 Page 1 of 74 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA FLORIDA RIGHTS RESTORATION COALITION, RHOSHANDA JONES, ANGEL SANCHEZ, AUTUMN WAITE, and BRANDON WALTHOUR, Plaintiffs, EM O …
Article • April 1, 2023 • from PLN April, 2023
Polling Stations Inside Jails Combat Voter Disenfranchisement by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders America’s carceral system strips millions of people of many privileges as citizens. Even when released, some of those privileges are not regained. Take voting, for instance. Felons – with rare exceptions in a couple of states – …
Florida Makes Parolees Criminally Liable for Accidental Voter Registration Fraud by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Florida took a significant step towards charging more ex-convicts with voter fraud, eight days after Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) announced the first 20 arrests in August 2022. [See: PLN, Jan. 2023, p.18.] On …
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