When voting rights restoration is based on your ability to pay

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John,

I wanted to make sure you saw this message about a call-in event we're holding July 25, 2019.

If you've already RSVP'd, you'll receive the call-in information on July 24, so stay tuned. If you'd like to join but haven't responded yet, make sure you do! ([link removed])

Best,

Danielle Lang
Co-Director Voting Rights & Redistricting

P.S. For a preview of some of the issues we’ll discuss on the call, read “Too Poor To Vote,” ([link removed]) an opinion piece I co-authored with one of our speakers, Thea Sebastian of Civil Rights Corps for The New York Times last November.

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** You're invited to a discussion hosted by Campaign Legal Center:
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** Too Poor to Vote: How the Criminal Justice System Has Created a New Era of Poll Taxes
Thursday July 25, 2019 from noon to 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time
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RSVP by July 24 to receive the call-in number in advance of the call. ([link removed])

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


** Featuring:
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* Danielle Lang, Co-Director, Voting Rights & Redistricting, Campaign Legal Center
* Chiraag Bains, Director, Legal Strategies, Demos
* Aderson Francois, Professor and Director of the Civil Rights Clinic at Georgetown Law
* Thea Sebastian, Policy Counsel, Civil Rights Corps

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