Tune in today! This week: Voting rights and the criminal legal system
Advocate,
No eligible voter should be denied their fundamental right to vote. Ever.
At any given time, roughly 750,000 people in America are in jail. Most of them are eligible to cast a ballot, but how can they exercise their fundamental right when jails don't make it accessible? And what's more, state laws bar more than six million citizens convicted of felonies from voting.
When voters are silenced, communities are shut out of the political process. Tune in tonight and learn how we can restore the vote — and open the doors of our democracy.
— The Leadership Conference
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