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class="entry-byline"> <span class="entry-date"><abbr class="updated" title="2010-03-18T21:37:12-0400">Mar 18th, 2010</abbr></span> <address class="author vcard">by <a class="url fn" href="http://richardjohnson.com">Richard Johnson</a>. </address> <a href="http://irienews.com/2010/03/18/one-in-four-black-men-in-kentucky-cant-vote-but-dra-could-change-that#respond" class="comments-link" title="Comment on One in Four Black Men in Kentucky Can’t Vote, But DRA Could Change That"><span class="dsq-postid-6614">View Comments</span></a> </div> <div class="entry-content"> <p><img alt="colorlines_cant_vote_2.jpg" src="http://irienews.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/3c3a2_colorlines_cant_vote_2.jpg" width="300" height="152" class="mt-image-right" style="float: right;margin: 0 0 20px 20px"/>Those are the stats from the <a href="http://kchr.ky.gov/">Kentucky Commission on Human Rights</a>, which released its report on the state of Black folks there last month. Kentucky’s got the special distinction as being one of two states that bars people with past felony convictions from voting for their entire lives. </p><p>That could change though, if the Democracy Restoration Act passes. The bill would restore the right to vote in federal elections to four million people around the country who’ve served their time, been released and now live–and likely pay taxes–in our communities. On Tuesday, the House Subcommittee on Committee, Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties <a href="http://www.mainjustice.com/2010/03/17/house-panel-hears-pros-and-cons-of-re-enfranchising-felons/">convened a hearing to listen to testimony on the bill</a>. </p><p>If passed, DRA would join the larger state-based movement in the last ten years to restore folks with prior convictions the right to vote. Since 1997, twenty states have made adjustments to laws to allow at least some portion of the formerly incarcerated the right to vote in state elections. Kentucky’s actually got <a href="http://www.brennancenter.org/blog/archives/kentuckys_disturbing_disenfranchisement_numbers/">a state version of DRA</a> in committee right now, awaiting passage by its Senate before it goes to a public vote.</p><p>Ex-felon voter disenfranchisement is a voter suppression tactic left over from the Jim Crow-era, a classic example of discriminatory laws that don’t mention race but have a disproportionate impact on people of color. Literacy tests, anyone? Poll taxes? We don’t stand for that these days, yet voter disenfranchisement of people with felony convictions still stands on the books. </p><p>According to the Brennan Center for Justice at the NYU School of Law, <a href="http://www.brennancenter.org/blog/archives/kentuckys_disturbing_disenfranchisement_numbers/">50,000 of Kentucky’s two hundred thousand Black residents</a> were unable to vote in 2004 because of voter disenfranchisement. Nationwide, it’s estimated that <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/17/how-do-you-disenfranchise_n_502178.html">13 percent of all Black men</a> in this country are forbidden to vote. Some democracy, huh?</p><p>But talk of voter disenfranchisement must be considered alongside a conversation of the deeper, broader issues embedded in the criminal justice system. You know, the criminal justice system that convicts and imprisons Blacks and Latinos <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124687663">at higher rates than white people</a>, that <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ggQUc7u-ltWPn395XZN0ivan-JQQ">doles out harsher sentences</a> to Black folks than white folks for similar crimes, that <a href="http://www.aclu.org/capital-punishment/race-and-death-penalty">executes people of color at higher rates</a> than white people. The two go hand-in-hand.</p><p>The Democracy Restoration Act is a no-brainer. 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It remains unlikely that Democrats will work reform into the 2010 agenda. But in an essay over at ColorLines today, <a href="http://www.colorlines.com/article.php?ID=693">Seth Wessler asks a deeper question</a>: Whenever Democrats get moving on reform, what will they actually achieve? Seth writes:</p><blockquote><p>The Obama administration’s reform goal is to achieve what Bush only purported to do: Focus enforcement on dangerous criminals and terrorists. “As an investigative agency, ICE prioritizes our immigration enforcement efforts to target those who threaten the security of the American people,” says Obama’s ICE chief, John Morton. The political tradeoff seems clear: A tough-enforcement perspective can give Democrats the space to create paths to citizenship.  …</p><p>[snip]</p><p>The problem is that tough “enforcement” has never really been about deporting dangerous criminals or securing the border against terrorists. It’s really meant tearing apart thousands of families a year as a result of minor and often decades-old interactions with the cops. </p></blockquote><p>Read Seth’s essay <a href="http://www.colorlines.com/article.php?ID=693">here</a>. 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