Oregon is set to expand voting rights to people in prison.
The state legislature will hold a full assembly vote in June, and the measure is likely to pass. Democrats hold a supermajority in both the House and Senate.Gov. Tina Kotek hasn't publicly said if she would sign the bill, but her signature is believed to be likely. If passed, the bill would make Oregon the third state in the United States to allow people to vote while in prison, according to NBC News. The other two states are Maine and Vermont, and they're joined by Washington, D.C.
Democrats say the bill moves the U.S. toward being a consistent democracy by giving all adults the right to vote. Republicans, meanwhile, have decried the bill as allowing the voices of the most violent in society to decide the state's politics.
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