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New York lawmakers approve bill granting parolees full voting rights

New York lawmakers approve bill granting parolees full voting rights ALBANY New York lawmakers have approved legislation extending full voting rights to people on parole. The Democratic-led Assembly voted on the measure Wednesday, following passage in the Senate earlier this year. Supporters say the measure builds upon a 2018 executive order that has led to voting pardons for more than 60,000 New Yorkers on parole. The measure goes further by fully restoring voting rights to all people released and under supervision and will have a major impact on minority communities, according to sponsor Assemblyman Daniel O’Donnell (D-Manhattan). “Parole disenfranchisement in New York was designed to prevent Black men from voting, and we see the legacy of these laws in the largely Black and Latinx parolee population today,” O’Donnell. “With the passage of this bill, we are one step closer to dismantling the vestiges of segregation-era felony disenfranchisement in New York.”

Bill enshrining parolees right to vote advances to Cuomo

PUBLISHED 12:45 PM ET Apr. 21, 2021 PUBLISHED 12:45 PM EDT Apr. 21, 2021 SHARE A bill extending voting rights to people on parole is heading to Gov. Andrew Cuomo s desk after state lawmakers gave the measure final approval on Wednesday. The measure was approved Wednesday morning in the Democratic-led state Assembly; it passed in the Democratic-controlled state Senate earlier this year.  “Preventing citizens on parole from exercising their constitutional right to vote is a significant barrier to full reintegration,” said Assemblywoman Latrice Walker, the chairwoman of the chamber s Election Law Committee. “Too often members of our communities, who are on parole, are disenfranchised for years during supervision and never register to vote when they become eligible simply because they do not know they have become eligible. This bill restores the right to vote upon release from incarceration to help these individuals ful

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