Learning Session: Ballot Access & Expansion for New Yorkers with Criminal Legal System Involvement

Wednesday May 8th, 10:00 am to 11:30am

Panel:

Marlon Peterson, Executive Director, College & Community Fellowship
Victor Pate, Co-Director of The HALT Solitary Confinement Coalition.
Nicole Porter, Senior Director of Advocacy,

The Sentencing Project Moderator:
Zabrina Collazo, Program Officer, New York Foundation and GoVoteNYC co-chair

This learning session looks at ballot access for incarcerated people who are legally eligible to vote, and ballot expansion: legal and constitutional changes to enfranchise people after incarceration. The panel discusses the current state of play in New York and what we can learn from other states. They also discuss models to engage formerly incarcerated people in voting, such as deploying trusted messengers.