Voting Rights For All

Voting rights laws differ widely from state to state, and 48 out of 50 states
have laws that disenfranchise or limit voting rights for people with felony convictions.
The Sentencing Project, a national research organization, estimates that at least
5.3 million Americans will be denied the right to vote in the 2008 election because
of a felony conviction.  A total of 13% of Black men are ineligible to vote because
of past convictions. 

Dorsey Nunn, co-founder of All of Us or None noted, “The voting
rights of incarcerated and formerly-incarcerated people and people with past convictions
have been violated over the course of decades, at a minimum through benign neglect,
and at worst deliberate disenfranchisement of hundreds of thousands
of people.  The lessons coming out of Florida
in 2000 were not only a question of hanging chads,
but the open suppression of Black votes through the manipulation of
felony conviction status.”