Friday, October 13 · 3 - 4:15pm CDT
Wisconsin Idea Room at the UW Madison School of Education, 1000 Bascom Mall OR via Zoom
 

The State Democracy Research Initiative and the Elections Research Center at UW-Madison will host “Election Matters 2023: Voting Rights and the Criminal Justice System." The event is sponsored by Stafford Rosenbaum LLP. 

Whether and how to afford the right to vote to incarcerated and formerly incarcerated individuals are questions that have long generated legal and policy controversy. This panel will address current approaches and challenges to offender re-enfranchisement and voting in correctional facilities.

Panelists will include:

• Naila Awan (Prison Policy Initiative), 

• Professor Michael Massoglia, (UW Madison Sociology), 

• Professor Michael Morse (Penn Carey Law School), and 

• Professor Michael Leo Owens (Emory Political Science).

The panel will be moderated by the Election Research Center's Director, Professor Barry Burden.