New Mexico Should Restore Voting Rights to Over 17,000 Citizens
New Mexico denies the right to vote to 17,572 citizens, over 1% of its voting age population, because they are supervised in the community on probation or parole, or incarcerated in prison or jail for a felony conviction.
Related to: Voting Rights, Racial Justice, State Advocacy
New Mexico denies the right to vote to 17,572 citizens, over 1% of its voting age population, because they are supervised in the community on probation or parole, or incarcerated in prison or jail for a felony conviction. An estimated 64% of New Mexico’s disenfranchised adults live in the community. The law restricting voting by people with felony convictions undermines New Mexico’s democracy and extends the racial injustice embedded in the criminal legal system to its electoral system.
