Ex-Felon Voting Rights in Nebraska


WHY SHOULD I CARE ABOUT VOTING?

As a convicted felon, you had many of your rights stripped away. Now that you have served your time, you deserve to have some of those rights returned to you. Not every state allows ex-felons to vote; Nebraska does.

Make your voice heard.

  • Voting gives me a voice in how my tax dollars are spent.

    • Parks, roads, education, job training, prisons, pot-holes, mental health service, football fields, help for the poor and elderly, health care...
    I have a say about where my tax dollars go when I vote.
  • Voting gives me self-respect.

    • I am standing up for myself, my family, and my community when I vote. I am expressing my opinion in a healthy and dignified way.
  • Voting gives me a right to speak out.

    • When I vote, I am choosing the people who will represent me. Why should they listen to me if I don't vote?
  • I am a positive role model when I vote.

    • When I vote, I am teaching my children and my neighbor's children that voting is an important right as well as an important responsibility.
  • Voling helps make my neighborhood stronger.

    • Politicians pay attention to areas where the voting turnout is good, because politicians need votes to get elected.
  • Voting allows me a chance to give back to my community.

    • No matter what has happened in my past, when I vote I am a contributing member of my community.
  • Voting makes me equal with other American citizens.

    • I am counted as a person when political district lines are drawn, and also when Congress determines how many people will represent my state in the House of Representatives.
    If I don't vote, I have been counted as a person, but I am not counted as a voter.
    If I do vote, my one vote counts the same as the governor's one vote, or the banker's one vote, or Warren Buffet's one vote.
  • My vote matters.

    • One vote confirmed the right to vote for women in the United States in 1920.
    One vote brought Texas into the Union in 1845.
    One vote changed France from a monarchy to a republic in 1875.
    One vote kept Aaron Burr from being elected President of the United States.
    One vote elected Thomas Jefferson, John Quincy Adams, and Rutherford B. Hayes President.
    One vote saved President Andrew Johnson from being removed from office.
    One vote per precinct elected John F. Kennedy President in 1960.
    One vote made Adolph Hitler head of the Nazi party in 1923.

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    Contact the League of Women Voters of Nebraska
    140 North 8th Street, Lincoln, Nebraska, 68508
    800-845-3746 OR 402-475-1411     		Back to the League of Women Voters of Nebraska home page