New State-by-State Primers on Voting Rights Restoration
State criminal disenfranchisement laws deprive approximately 6.1 million people in the U.S. of their right to vote. These
Today, after years of work and an uphill battle for rights restoration, Voice of the Experienced (VOTE) reached a milestone: The rights-restoration bill they championed, HB 265, has passed the Louisiana House of Representatives.
More than 70,000 people in Louisiana are being deprived of their right to vote. As our team told a judge panel, “they should be voting. They should be voting today.”
