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The Marshall Project Wins Collier Prize for State Government Accountability

Push for voting rights still leaves many former felons off state rolls

Nicole Lewis and Andrew R. Calderon The Marshall Project Only a fraction of the thousands of formerly incarcerated people whose voting rights were restored in time for the 2020 election made it back on to the voter rolls in four key states – Nevada, Kentucky, Iowa and New Jersey, a Marshall Project analysis found. Yet none of the states analyzed registered more than 1 in 4 eligible voters who were formerly incarcerated. That s significantly lower than the registration rate among the general public, where almost 3 in 4 eligible voters registered in each state. In Kentucky, about 31,000 of the 170,000 people with felony convictions successfully submitted a voting application before the last election. In Nevada, 8,633 of about 37,000 people released from prison in the past 10 years had registered. The state estimates that 77,000 formerly incarcerated became eligible to vote in 2019. In Iowa – the last state with a lifetime ban on voting for people with felony convictions – a

Many felons left off state roles despite push for voting rights

Nicole Lewis and Andrew R. Calderon The Marshall Project Only a fraction of the thousands of formerly incarcerated people whose voting rights were restored in time for the 2020 election made it back on to the voter rolls in four key states Nevada, Kentucky, Iowa and New Jersey, a Marshall Project analysis found. Yet none of the states analyzed registered more than 1 in 4 eligible voters who were formerly incarcerated. That s significantly lower than the registration rate among the general public, where almost 3 in 4 eligible voters registered in each state. In Iowa the last state with a lifetime ban on voting for people with felony convictions almost 5,000 of the estimated 45,000 affected people had registered. Gov. Kim Reynolds signed an executive order lifting the ban in August of 2020. 

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