Voter Empowerment Field Work Report

This weekend, KFTC members visited fatherhood programs at Douglas Park in Lexington and in the Boston community of Georgetown, registering voters and talking to people about our campaign to restore voting rights to former felons who have served their debt to society. 

Many of our volunteers were former felons themselves.  In addition to coming home with over 100 postcards to Senate President David Williams and Governor Steve Beshear, we had key conversations with former felons, folks at Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority (who have been actively working to support voting rights), first district Lexington councilman Chris Ford, and we even talked to a minister at a local Methodist church in Georgetown who pledged to talk to members of his congregation about this issue.

We also helped over a dozen people to start the process to request their voting rights back from the Governor individually and met three people who we intend to follow-up with to interview as part of our Former Felon Voices series on this blog.