More than a quarter-century after voters revoked the right to vote from Bay Staters incarcerated on felonies, the Massachusetts body politic might be asked to revisit the topic.
Criminal justice and voting rights advocates are beginning the work required to potentially put a question on the 2028 ballot that would once again allow thousands of people serving prison time on felony convictions to vote in state elections while behind bars.
It’s the latest effort in a series of so-far unsuccessful attempts to reverse a constitutional amendment adopted by voters in 2000, which eliminated that voting right. Organizers are optimistic public sentiment has changed enough in the past two-plus decades for the new proposal to pass…