Your Voting Rights
Your vote is your voice. Don’t miss your chance to be heard on decisions that shape your community. In California, formerly incarcerated citizens can regain their voting rights.
You are eligible to register and vote if you are:
Your vote is your voice. Don’t miss your chance to be heard on decisions that shape your community. In California, formerly incarcerated citizens can regain their voting rights.
You are eligible to register and vote if you are:
You are not eligible to register and vote if you are:
California’s criminal justice system is changing. Long notorious for overcrowded prisons and punitive three-strikes sentencing, California now leads the nation in common-sense criminal justice reform.
Prop 47, overwhelmingly passed by California voters in November 2014, is now in effect for a period of eight years (through November 4, 2022). You may be eligible to get nonviolent felonies such as drug possession or shoplifting reclassified as misdemeanors or removed from your record. This could mean:
If you were convicted for:
And none of the following is applicable to you:
You may qualify to have your felony conviction reclassified as a misdemeanor or removed from your record.
*You may be eligible for resentencing. See MyProp47.org for more information.