Abstract
Felony disenfranchisement and prison gerrymandering distort democratic representation by excluding incarcerated and formerly incarcerated individuals from political participation while artificially inflating representation in prison-hosting districts. In this report, the Fordham Law School Rule of Law Clinic recommends restoring voting rights to individuals with felony convictions once they are released from prison and ending prison-based gerrymandering by counting incarcerated persons with a certain number of years left in their sentences as residents of the districts where they intend to reside after their release, in addition to other reforms to effectively carry out these policies.
Recommended Citation
Andrew Calabrese, Tim Gordon & Tianyi Lu,
Voting Rights and the Electoral Process: Resolving Representation Issues Due to Felony Disenfranchisement and Prison Gerrymandering,
1
Fordham L. Voting Rts. & Democracy F.
359
(2023).
Available at:
https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/vrdf/vol1/iss3/7
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