Legislation would restore voting rights for 89,000 formerly incarcerated
An estimated 89,000 formerly incarcerated Nevadans could immediately have their voting rights restored under proposed legislation.
Under the current process that allows people to petition the court to regain the right to vote, only 281 people had their rights restored between 1990 and 2011 according to the D.C.-based research group The Sentencing Project.
Holly Welborn, the policy director of the ACLU of Nevada, called the system an “illusory process.”
“We have a statute that says you can in fact petition a court, but it doesn’t spell out how you go about doing that,” she said. “That’s led to very low participation in the court order process. The Sentencing Project estimates that one-half of one percent of people had their rights restored through a court ordered process from 1990 to 2010.”
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