Name: This Ex-Convict's Fight To Vote In The U.S. 2020 Election
Uploaded: 2020-11-07T18:20:45.000Z
Duration: 3 min 43 s
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I'm definitely excited about this is history.

What's really striking is when you consider how many people were disenfranchised in the country.

It was about six million folks, meaning the vast majority of people who had still been disenfranchised for the rest of their lives had already done their time.

And so they were members in our communities, paying taxes on didn't have a right to vote.

My story is I was running the streets as a young kid.

Later on in my life, I got caught up around age 29.

I end up imprisoned by doing a lot of robberies.

Me and a couple of my friends we got caught on.

I was incarcerated because I was incarcerated for 15 years.

I regret not doing the right thing that way.

I could be in my family's lives because, you know, my family really needed me at that at that time.

When I got incarcerated on that took me away from my family.

Prior to me being incarcerated, I never thought about voting.

I was too consumed about myself and what was going on in my community, so I didn't.

At that time, I was not about community building, and I was definitely not into politics.

I didn't feel like I was missing out on anything.

I just knew that eventually I was gonna gain that that privilege back.

Once you've served all your time and paid all your fees and all your finds that were associated with your original sentence that was assigned by the judge once your case was completed and fully adjudicated, then when that has happened, your voting rights are fully restored.

Yeah, there is a huge part of our population that is unable to vote, and that is very intentional.

And so I think that everyone has a responsibility to participate in the democratic process.

I don't see it as a right that I want to get back.

Once I came home or like a few months after I came home or something like that, Cuomo actually restored my rights to vote.

He made it possible where former incarcerated individuals registered to vote and this coming election.

You know, you have Trump on one side biting on the other.

Yeah, I feel a great sense of responsibility because I feel like my vote matters.

I feel like my vote could sway it either way if I vote or if I don't vote.

So I felt like a great sense of responsibility.

Our answers is wish they had the right to vote and they were denied that this right here is something that could it could change your life and change the life of others.

You can also learn from my experience that no matter how bad you've done, you can always correct it.