Lawmakers in Illinois are advancing a bill that seeks to provide incarcerated individuals voting rights in the state.
The measure, Senate Bill 828, is being sponsored by State Senator Mike Simmons (D-Ill.) and seeks to overturn the current state law, which prohibits individuals serving a sentence in a state or federal prison, county jail, or on work release, from voting. In the 2022 midterms, roughly 27,300 incarcerated individuals in the state were not eligible to vote.
