Click the links below to read our state voting rights briefs. If you are interested in working with The Sentencing Project to expand voting rights in your state, please contact Nicole D. Porter (nporter@sentencingproject.org).
Almost half of Connecticans disenfranchised due to felony convictions are Black, and 28% are Latinx. To ameliorate this racial injustice and protect its democratic values, Connecticut should restore voting rights to people in prison.
Florida surpasses every state in the nation with the largest number of U.S. citizens disenfranchised due to a felony conviction.
Driving Georgia’s high disenfranchisement rate is its community supervision population, which is the largest in the country.
Despite a gubernatorial executive order in 2019 designed to ease the burden of Kentucky’s lifetime disenfranchisement law for people with felony convictions, the commonwealth still denies the right to vote to more people with a felony conviction than 39 other states.
Minnesota denies the vote to more of its people with a felony conviction than most other states in the Upper Midwest.
An estimated 64% of New Mexico’s disenfranchised adults live in the community.
New York should follow the lead of Maine, Vermont, Puerto Rico, and Washington DC and extend voting rights to all people affected by the criminal legal system, regardless of their current incarceration status.
Often viewed as a politically progressive state, Oregon’s disenfranchisement of incarcerated people disproportionately harms Black citizens.
Pennsylvania restricts access to the ballot box at the second highest rate in the region.
Tennessee has the country’s highest rate of disenfranchisement for both Black and Latinx Americans.
The number of Texans denied voting rights due to a felony conviction is larger than the disenfranchised populations of 47 states.