As the world leader in incarceration, the United States disenfranchises more people and a higher percentage of people than any other country when its states deprive prisoners of the right to vote -- something that a lot of countries do not do at all.

In the U.S., this deprivation of rights has a racial bias. Black and brown communities are very disproportionately policed, prosecuted, and incarcerated.

Not all U.S. states strip people convicted of felonies of the right to vote. In Maine, Vermont, and Washington, D.C., citizens retain the right to vote while incarcerated.

Now, in California, Assembly Constitutional Amendment 4 (ACA 4) would allow currently eligible voters to decide whether to continue denying the right to vote to 100,000 prisoners of the state of California.

Passing a federal version could return the right to vote to nearly 2 million imprisoned U.S. citizens.

Sign the petition: Restore voting rights to citizens in prison.

Show your commitment to justice and democracy. Sign the petition: Let’s pass ACA 4 in California and at the federal level to restore voting rights to all American citizens serving in prison.

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