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To support yes in support of the rules and regulations for aca6. Thank you. Thank you. Next i want to call up brendon woods who is the Alameda County public defender. Good morning, members of the committee. Thank you for allowing me to say a few words about this important pieces of legislation that is being considered in sacramento. As you heard, aca6 will allow the voters to decide whether people on parole should be given the right to vote. As i said earlier in a rally today just to provide some context, 21 countries, 21, currently allow people to vote if you are on parole or if you are in prison. 21 countries. Those countries include spain, switzerland, sweden, germany, and even south africa. South africa. In april of 1999, the Constitutional Court of south africa declared the universality of the disenfranchisement is important, not only for the nation and democracy to vote for each and every citizen is a badge of personhood. In south africa they literally said every vote counts. In
I would just echo all of chair ronens comments about the importance of the this committee, and also thank you so much to ms. Packard and ms ms. Raveche for all of your commitment and to serve on the committee and the city. I would like to make a motion to move this forward to the full board with positive recommendation. The appointment of Scott Patterson to seat 1, Betty Packard to seat 2 and Ashley Raveche to seat 3 as the Committee Report for consideration at the july 23rd board meeting. Chair ronen and without objection, that motion passes unanimously. Congratulations and thank you so much. Mr. Clerk, can you please read item number 3. Clerk item number 3 is a rules and regulations supporting Assembly Constitutional amendment no. 6 to allow automatic restoration for Voting Rights to those on parole upon completion of a state or federal prison term. Chair ronen thank you so much. The sponsor has joined us. Thank you so much, chair ronen and supervisors mar and walton for having me he
Introduce our subject Matter Experts who are here. I also have some very small amendments to the resolution, which ill pass out copies here. They basically just say that there are 18 other states, rather than 14 other states, that have taken similar steps. With that im going to turn it over to our subject Matter Experts who can provide more context and information and who will also be available for followup questions. The first person i want to introduce is a has been fighting this fight for a long. He will give you these little flyers where it shows all of the steps over many years to get us to this point and all of the struggles to make sure that we actually have a democracy that includes everybody and is, i think, one of our greatest champions not just for this issue, but one of the most important civil and human rights leaders in the country and longtime friend of mine dorcy young. Thank you. Ive been doing Voter Registration for over 20 years, and i like outside of a narcotic anon
Wives, brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers, aunts, uncles, of people who are incarcerated, it is a long, long time and we need to give every Single Person the right to full citizenship under the law and the right to vote as soon as we possibly can. Everybody who has served their sentence needs the right. Thank you very much. [ bell rings ]. Chair ronen next speaker. Good morning. My name is michael sevadra. Im also formerly incarcerated. I spent 19. 5 years in prison. Im now a pathway to Law School Student and also i work and pay taxes. However, i cant vote and i think its very important for me to be reintegrated back into the community to have that right and also to represent my community because my community is being marginalized as well and their voice as well as mine need to be heard. So i urge you to pass this. Thank you. Good morning, good afternoon, my name is wendy click. I work for hospitality house but also represent myself. Im formerly incarcerated. The sentence i carried, i