Bernie Wants People to Vote From Prison

Campaigning in Iowa on Saturday, 2020 Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders said he thinks that convicted felons should be allowed to vote from behind bars.

Sanders represents Vermont in the Senate, one of only two states that allow felons to vote from prison currently. At a town hall meeting on Saturday, he was asked whether it should be a nationwide law. . .

“In my state, what we do is separate. You’re paying a price, you committed a crime, you’re in jail,” said Sanders, according to the Des Moines Register. “But you’re still living in American society and you have a right to vote. I believe in that, yes, I do.”

Thirteen states and Washington, D.C. currently specifically prohibit felons from voting only while incarcerated. Thirty states restore voting rights to felons after all time, including probation, has been served. That thirty includes Florida, which only made the change after the 2018 midterms. (Read more from “Bernie Wants People to Vote From Prison” HERE)

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