“Democracy thrives when everybody has a chance to have their voice heard,” State Assemblyman Isaac Bryan wrote on Twitter.
“Democracy thrives when everybody has a chance to have their voice heard,”Two-thirds of each chamber of the state legislature must vote yes for the bill just for it to appear on the ballot as a proposition. Voters must then approve it by a simple majority for it to become a constitutional amendment.
California is currently among 21 states where felons only lose their right to vote while they are incarcerated, the conference says. The right is automatically reinstated upon release. Some states’ laws require probation and parole to be completed for the restoration of voting rights. In other states, people incarcerated on certain crimes lose their rights indefinitely after release.The California constitution currently disqualifies people who are incarcerated in state or federal prison from voting and restores the right upon their release.
, the party has conservative representatives from rural areas and major progressive policies aren’t guaranteed to pass.“Criminal acts should have consequences. Voting is a sacred privilege, not an absolute right of citizenship,” wrote
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