Elections

Nonprofit Quarterly  - As of 2022, an estimated 4.4 million people in the United States had lost their right to vote due to felony convictions. This is equivalent to the population of Kentucky or Oregon. A report published in June by Human Rights Watch, The Sentencing Project, and the American Civil Liberties Union’s Voting Rights Project seeks to challenge this common practice.The report—Out of Step: US Policy on Voting Rights in Global Perspective, authored by a nine-person team led by Nicole Porter, senior director of advocacy at The Sentencing Project—examines the laws of 136 countries worldwide with populations greater than 1.5 million people. Of these, 73 rarely or never deny a person the right to vote for a criminal conviction, and 35 never deny the right to vote based on criminal status.