Posted by: KFTC Staff on April 17, 2020
We won a major victory late last year when Governor Andy Beshear signed an executive order restoring the right to vote to an estimated 152,000 people with felonies in their past. About half of people who are off of probation and parole got their right to vote back. The problem is that in most cases, no one has told them that.
Since then, he rolled out a tool at CivilRightsRestoration.KY.gov people can use to see if they got their right to vote back through that order.
Posted by: KFTC Staff on April 16, 2020
Kentucky is one of just 8 states that don’t generally allow voters to vote by mail and that haven’t expanded their vote-by-mail options in the face of the current pandemic.
Posted by: KFTC Staff on April 16, 2020
Posted by: Joe Gallenstein on April 16, 2020
Kentuckians continue to come together to fight for a more just future for all of us.
Posted by: KFTC Staff on April 15, 2020
The final vote on Senate Bill 2 happened yesterday evening (April 14) to override Governor Beshear's veto.
If you want to know which representatives voted for a complicated 57-page bill to make it harder to vote in the middle of a pandemic, that's the representatives with the green "y"s next to their names (or you can view the roll call votes here). The Senate passed the same veto override earlier in the day. Then they celebrated suppressing the vote.
SB 2 is not slated to go into effect until the General Election in November, but it's not clear whether ID offices will be open then (they're closed now). Even so, many Kentuckians simply don't have or need photo IDs, particularly elderly Kentuckians and lower income Kentuckians who don't drive.
Posted by: KFTC Staff on April 9, 2020
The U.S. census is a critically important tool that helps determine how much funding for health services a particular community gets, how many electoral votes a state has, or where state legislature maps are drawn. It's important that we're all counted, though we also know that some lower income and rural communities don't get fully counted. That means our communities and our state end up missing out on funding and electoral power.
And in this moment, census worker aren't able to go door-to-door. We need to step in and help get every person living in Kentucky counted.
Posted by: KFTC Staff on April 9, 2020
Will you take a few minutes to tell legislators not to override Gov. Beshear’s veto of Senate Bill 2?
We don’t need slower voting lines, more restrictions that make it harder for registered voters to vote, or to implement a new and complicated 57-page bill to limit voting. Not now and not ever.
Posted by: Joe Gallenstein on March 28, 2020
During this past session of the Kentucky General Assembly, members of the Nrthern Kentucky chapter hosted conversations at local coffeeshops with legislators.
Posted by: Joe Gallenstein on March 28, 2020
On March 26, the Northern Kentucky chapter cohosted a zoom video conversation about immigration rights.
Posted by: KFTC Executive Committee on March 11, 2020
Updated, Friday March 13, 2020
