Connecticut's Dem governor just signed a law that:
✅Adopts automatic voter registration at various state agencies
✅Restores voting rights to everyone not in prison
✅Allows online mail ballots requests & makes drop boxes permanent
✅Gives workers 2 hours unpaid time off to vote
✅Adopts automatic voter registration at various state agencies
✅Restores voting rights to everyone not in prison
✅Allows online mail ballots requests & makes drop boxes permanent
✅Gives workers 2 hours unpaid time off to vote
https://twitter.com/swerenbecker/status/1407776254682710017
After Connecticut's expansion of automatic voter registration & voting rights restoration, I've updated my cartograms on AVR & felony voter bans.
47% of Americans live in states with AVR laws & 55% in states where almost everyone not in prison can vote
47% of Americans live in states with AVR laws & 55% in states where almost everyone not in prison can vote
https://twitter.com/PoliticsWolf/status/1407781973423116293?s=20
Since just 2015, there's been huge progress on the adoption of automatic voter registration after Oregon became the first state to adopt it that year, & many states (plus D.C.) both blue & red have curtailed felony voter bans in that same time period. Still a ways to go, though
https://twitter.com/PoliticsWolf/status/1407786575992221696
One key thing I didn't include on my felony voter ban cartogram above is which states impose de facto poll taxes by requiring payment of court fines & fees (which are often predatory in Florida, etc.), but @Law360 has an interactive map of that as of 2020 law360.com/florida/articl…
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