The proposed legislation would reverse a constitutional amendment that was added in 2000 when voters approved a statewide ballot question making it illegal to vote from prison while serving a felony sentence.
Restoring the right to vote for those in Massachusetts prisons with a felony conviction would be the next step in criminal justice reform, advocates argued before the Election Laws Committee on Thursday.
The felony disenfranchisement constitutional amendment was added in 2000 when voters approved a statewide ballot question making it illegal to vote from prison while serving a felony sentence. Though the Election Laws Committee's Thursday public hearing was open for comment on several bills, the committee only heard from those who were in favor of the constitutional amendment, and no one who opposes it, for about two hours.
Mallory Hanora of Families For Justice As Healing echoed Skarpos' comments, saying that those in prison deserve the chance to impact policy that will affect them and their families. He said he learned more about politics from other inmates when he was in prison and, though he couldn't vote himself, encouraged his family members and friends to vote for Rollins, who ran on a progressive platform of criminal justice reform.
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