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Nevada Fights to Restore the Right to Vote

People with histories of legal trouble can restore their right to vote in this year’s presidential election with assistance from the Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada.

Under Nevada state law, men and women with a felony record can vote if they were honorably discharged before July 1, 2003, or have a single non-violent felony after that date. The law applies to people convicted in Nevada or any other state.

In order to prove these rights have been restored, people must provide documented proof of honorable discharge or completion of sentence from prison, probation, or parole. PLAN hired Voter Restoration Advocate Meredith McGhan to help men and women get copies of those documents from Nevada, the federal government or any other state and register to vote in the upcoming general election.

Many people in Clark County and statewide have received letters from local elections departments informing them that they cannot vote because of past legal trouble. McGhan said many, perhaps most, of them can restore their right to vote.

“We can help them through the process,” she said.

PLAN works to restore the right to vote because helping people participate in the civic life of our communities makes it much less likely that they will re-offend, McGhan noted.

“This is something that works for the people involved, for our communities and for the democratic system,” she said.

McGhan said there are thousands of people in Clark County alone who could restore their vote. PLAN registered 400 men and women in the 2004 election with a similar program.

PLAN is a coalition of three-dozen groups working for social, economic and environmental justice in the Silver State, with offices in Las Vegas, Reno and Carson City.

For assistance in restoring the right to call PLAN’s dedicated phone line for the program at (702)383-0079

Click Here to Download PLAN’s Voting Info Sheet.