Officials estimate that 77,000 Nevadans who have been released from prison will have their voting rights restored following the new state law.
Getting the right to vote is just the first step. Getting formerly incarcerated people to register and then to vote is more difficult than with the general population, advocates say. To address this, Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford has launched a public information campaign, and local organizations have begun reaching out to former prisoners to register them. These efforts include recruiting them to pass the message on.
Jackson spent about two years in a Nevada prison on a robbery-related conviction. In 2018, after his release, he began volunteering with local organizations that helped needy families in Las Vegas and working with his mother at her mental health service agency. He’s going to college, pursuing a degree in social work, and he started his own nonprofit,It was when he began looking into getting his criminal record sealed that Jackson said he became more interested in his right to vote.
“A competitive race in Nevada is usually won by 30,000 to 40,000 votes,” said Damore, who has studied Nevada elections for 20 years. “So hypothetically, if you captured a third of that new population of voters, that’s another 25,000, and 80 percent of those vote Democratic, then yes it could impact a state race.”
“Yes, the goal is that we are registering in this community, but it cannot just be a transactional thing like register to vote and talk to you later,” said Zamora, whose organization helps oversee Let Nevadans Vote, a growing coalition working to register formerly incarcerated Nevadans. “We see this as a holistic approach.”
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