HB1116, a bill being considered by Indiana legislature, would take Indiana election law in the wrong direction and would disenfranchise people convicted of voter fraud for ten years.
Indiana should be tearing down barriers to voting, not building new ones, in a time when we need more citizens to take an interest in registration and voting. If we wish to start to heal from Indiana’s history of racial exclusion, this is not the time to expand felony disenfranchisement to post-conviction – for any crimes, much less the non-existent threat of voter fraud.
Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights submitted a testimony opposing this bill in partnership with the Indiana State Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Count Us Indiana, And National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum.Read our testimony here.