Most states disenfranchise felons. Maine and Vermont allow inmates to vote from prison (Feb. 2018)
Meanwhile, Maine and Vermont remain unique in preserving voting right for prisoners — and serve as a model for states like New Jersey, where Democrats, newly in control of all three branches of government, plan to propose a bill to stop the disenfranchisement of felons and allow them to vote from behind bars.
Advocates say the rehabilitative effects of letting incarcerated felons have a voice in their communities are profound, while critics argue they shouldn't be permitted to take part in a process that could end up affecting the very laws they've broken.
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In Vermont, the Republican Party said they would oppose measures to end inmate voting.
"The last thing we want to do is start putting up insurmountable barriers to participation in civic life because someone may have been convicted of a crime," a spokesman for the state Republican Party, Mike Donohue, told NBC News. "People’s right to vote is sacred."
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/states-rethink-prisoner-voting-rights-incarceration-rates-rise-n850406
