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If Washington enacts HB 2030, it would join only Maine, Vermont and the District of Columbia in allowing prisoners to vote. Advocates say voting should be an inalienable right, regardless of ...
A 2020 Labour Party report argued that UK citizens above the age of 16 should have a right to vote “without qualification”. “This would include a right to vote for prisoners who are UK ...
To date, 48 states ban people with felony convictions from voting. Maine and Vermont are the only two states that allow people in prison to vote.
The Voting Eligibility (Prisoners) Bill was drafted to give Members of Parliament three options on which to vote. Option 1 would retain the ban for prisoners jailed for over four years. Option 2 would retain the ban for prisoners jailed for over six months. Option 3 would retain the current ban with minor amendments.
Hirst v United Kingdom (No 2) (2005) ECHR 681 is a European Court of Human Rights case, where the court ruled that a blanket ban on British prisoners exercising the right to vote is contrary to the European Convention on Human Rights. The court did not state that all prisoners should be given voting rights.
As a result, in 2008, more than a half-million people had the right to vote who would have been disenfranchised under prior restrictions. [25] Felony disenfranchisement was a topic of debate during the 2012 Republican presidential primary.
In three states – Florida, Kentucky and Iowa – all individuals convicted of felonies lose their voting rights permanently, and they must directly petition the government to get them back. Critics of these voting prohibitions argue that voting is an unalienable right and should not be taken away from citizens who have finished their prison ...
People completing sentences for felony convictions will automatically be registered to vote as they prepare to leave prison, according to Votebeat, the result of first-of-its-kind legislation ...