The Legal Aid Society, a legal advocacy group in New York City, rallied outside of the state's Board of Elections building demanding a more accessible voting process for incarcerated people.
a legal advocacy group in New York City, rallied outside of the state’s Board of Elections building demanding a more accessible voting process for incarcerated people.
“Our clients and all those incarcerated at Rikers who are eligible to vote – a whopping 90 percent of the local jail population – have the legal right to vote and must be granted early access to cast their ballots come election time,” said Anthony Posada, supervising attorney of the Community Justice Unit at The Legal Aid Society on Nov. 1. “By refusing to establish early voting locations at these facilities, the BOE is blatantly disenfranchising an entire population of eligible voters.
Legal Aid and other advocacy groups also said that a lack of established voting plans in city jails is lowering the voting participation of communities of color, particularly Black and Brown communities. In NYC jails, 88% of the population is comprised of Black and Brown individuals.
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