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In the United States, nearly six million individuals are denied the right to vote due to a past conviction, and for many of those individuals, the ability to vote is contingent upon their ability to pay an increasing number of fines, fees, court costs and restitution.
These policies impose a modern-day poll tax on individuals with past convictions.
Join Campaign Legal Center on Thursday, July 25 for the call-in event “Too Poor to Vote: How the Criminal Justice System Has Created a New Era of Poll Taxes,” a conversation on the intersection of the criminal justice system, wealth and voting.
On the day of the call we will also release a new report by CLC and Georgetown Law Civil Rights Clinic. The report is one of the first comprehensive studies of how voting rights restoration schemes deny the right to vote to those who cannot afford to pay legal debt.
Join us on July 25, 2019
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