Kentucky Bars Over 152,000 Citizens from Voting
Despite a gubernatorial executive order in 2019 designed to ease the burden of Kentucky’s lifetime disenfranchisement law for people with felony convictions, the commonwealth still denies the right to vote to more people with a felony conviction than 39 other states.
Related to: Voting Rights, Racial Justice, State Advocacy
Despite a gubernatorial executive order in 2019 designed to ease the burden of lifetime disenfranchisement for Kentuckians with felony convictions, Kentucky still denies the right to vote to more people with a felony conviction than 39 other states. Over 152,000 Kentuckians are excluded from participation in our democracy, representing 4.5% of the state’s voting age population. Driving Kentucky’s high disenfranchisement rate is its ban on voting for the almost 56,000 people on probation or parole, and 76,000 people who have completed their sentence.
