Free Our Vote

States Covered By

Free Our Vote

0 M

Disenfranchised Voters
in Florida

0 K

People With Felony Voter
Registration Rolls

0 %

Increase in voter turnout thanks
to Free Our Vote's efforts.

About Us

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Free Our Vote is a non-partisan, non-profit organization devoted to reincorporating returning citizens into the electorate. We strive to advance opportunities that effectively do so and provide empirical evidence that policymakers, organizations, and scholars can rely upon.

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Our History

Free Our Vote began in 2020 in response to the opacity and downstream consequences faced by voters with felony convictions in Florida. Though a state amendment legally re-enfranchised returning citizens who completed the terms of their sentence, administrative disarray prevented many from doing so.

Since 2020, we have invested in our relationships with grassroots organizations, charitable donors, and a network of academics operating in this space. Those bonds have helped us to identify the ubiquity of similar barriers to democracy outside of Florida. We now operate in several states and continue to grow.

Research

Free Our Vote’s efforts in Florida have met with measurable success. In a research paper, we measure, for the first time, the direct impact of felony financial disenfranchisement on voter participation, using a debt relief program implemented by Free Our Vote in Florida in 2020. Specifically, we compare electoral participation between registered voters whose legal-financial obligations were eliminated by Free Our Vote against virtually identical debtors who did not benefit from our program. We find our debt relief program increased voter turnout by approximately 26% among this group during the 2020 election.

Executive Team

Neel U. Sukhatme

Co-Founder

Neel Sukhatme is a Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center and a Faculty Advisor at the Institute for Technology Law and Policy. He received a Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University, a J.D. from Harvard Law School, and a B.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois.

Alexander Billy

Co-Founder

Alex is a research economist and litigation consultant. His research focuses on the pecuniary penalties associated with the criminal court system. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Georgetown University.