You may request a voter registration card from the Secretary of State or your county elections office. If you are in jail and you are eligible to vote, you are entitled to receive a voter registration card. Your voter registration application must be received or postmarked at least fifteen 15 days before Election Day to be eligible to vote in that election. Voter registration cards are, available at most public libraries and government offices.
Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett. Skip to main content. If I have a felony conviction, can I vote? Conviction on or after May 18, Any person convicted of any felony on or after May 18, is disqualified from voting unless their voting rights have been restored or their conviction expunged. Colorado and Nevada authorized voting rights for residents on parole in Maryland , Louisiana , and New Jersey reenfranchised people serving probation and parole terms.
States typically provide some limited mechanism for disenfranchised persons to restore their right to vote. These vary greatly in scope, eligibility requirements, and reporting practices. It is thus difficult to obtain consistent information about the rate and number of disenfranchised Americans whose rights are restored through these generally administrative procedures. Nevertheless, we contacted each of the appropriate state agencies by email and phone and compiled the information they made available to us in Table 2.
These numbers provides some information about the frequency of state restoration of rights — outside of law changes regarding eligibility — in those 11 states that disenfranchise beyond sentence completion. Even accounting for these restorations, it is clear that restoration of voting rights is rare in most states. The states reporting the greatest number of restorations since — Iowa, Kentucky, and Virginia — have had executive orders that re-enfranchised large categories of people who had completed their sentences.
Indeed, some states have significantly curtailed restoration efforts since , including Florida. Table 2 shows restorations of voting rights from to the most recent year available for restorations in previous years, see Uggen, Larson, and Shannon, This report provides new state-level estimates on felony disenfranchisement for in the United States to update those provided by Uggen, Larson, and Shannon for previous years.
In Tables 3 and 4, we provide state-specific point estimates of the disenfranchised population and African American disenfranchised population, subject to the caveats described below. Despite significant legal changes in recent decades, about 5.
When we break these figures down by race and ethnicity, it is clear that disparities in the criminal justice system are linked to disparities in political representation. The distribution of disenfranchised individuals shown in Figure 1 also bears repeating: about one-fourth of this population is currently incarcerated, and about 4 million adults who live in their communities are banned from voting.
Of this total, 1. In addition, the prison, probation, parole, and jail populations we report for are also estimated, based on year-end data and the recent state-specific trends in each state. With these caveats in mind, the results reported here present our best account of the prevalence of U.
These estimates will be adjusted if and when we discover errors or omissions in the data compiled from individual states, U. Census and Bureau of Justice Statistics sources, or in our own spreadsheets and estimation procedures. Nevertheless, readers should bear in mind that our state specific figures for the 11 states that bar individuals from voting after they have completed their sentences remain point estimates rather than actual head counts.
Click here for state estimates of disenfranchised individuals with felony convictions. Click here for state estimates of disenfranchised African Americans with felony convictions. Click here for state estimates of disenfranchised Latinx Americans with felony convictions. Langan, Patrick and Mark Cunniff.
Washington: Bureau of Justice Statistics. Love, Margaret, and David Schlussel. Who Must Pay to Regain the Vote? A State Survey. Collateral Consequences Research Center.
Manza, Jeff and Christopher Uggen. New York: Oxford University Press. McLeod, Morgan. McNeil, Walter. Porter, Nicole D.
Uggen, Christopher and Jeff Manza. In the past 25 years, half the states have changed their laws and practices to expand voting access to people with felony convictions. Despite these important reforms, 5. Overview In this presidential election year, the question of voting restrictions, and their disproportionate impact on Black and Brown communities, should receive greater public attention. Our key findings include the following: As of , an estimated 5.
There were an estimated 1. One out of 44 adults — 2. Individuals who have completed their sentences in the eleven states that disenfranchise at least some people post-sentence make up most 43 percent of the entire disenfranchised population, totaling 2. Rates of disenfranchisement vary dramatically by state due to broad variations in voting prohibitions. In three states — Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee — more than 8 percent of the adult population, one of every thirteen people, is disenfranchised.
We estimate that nearly , Floridians who have completed their sentences remain disenfranchised, despite a ballot referendum that promised to restore their voting rights.
The ability of the governor to restore voting rights to persons convicted of infamous crimes through pardoning power was upheld in State v. Richardson , In Governor Tom Vilsack restored voting rights to individuals with former felony convictions via executive order. Governor Terry Branstad reversed this executive order in Governor Steve Beshear restored voting rights to individuals with former non-violent felony convictions via executive order in Governor Matt Bevin reversed this executive order shortly after taking office in If an individual has been convicted of one of these, he or she can still receive a pardon from the governor to restore voting rights Miss.
Code Ann. In felony cases, there is a two-year waiting period after completion of probation for the restoration of voting rights Neb. The Tennessee Constitution denies the right to vote persons convicted of an infamous crime Tenn. Those convicted of infamous crimes may petition for restoration upon completion of the sentence or be pardoned by the governor T.
Proof of restoration is needed in order to register to vote T.
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