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Deputy Director, Democracy Program, Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law

Erika L. Wood is the Deputy Director of the Democracy Program. She directs the Right to Vote project and works on redistricting reform throughout the country. Ms. Wood has designed and launched major reform campaigns around the country and provides legal counsel and strategic guidance to advocates, legislators and policymakers nationwide. She created the Brennan Center Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Advisory Council as well as the Center's Communities of Faith Initiative.

Ms. Wood has authored several groundbreaking reports, numerous articles and is a frequent speaker and commentator on voting rights, criminal justice reform and racial justice issues. Ms. Wood is an Adjunct Professor at NYU School of Law where she teaches the Brennan Center Public Policy Advocacy Clinic.

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Turning Back the Clock in Florida

Posted March 10, 2011 | 16:26:55 (EST)

In less than an hour yesterday, Florida Governor Rick Scott denied the right to vote to hundreds of thousands, maybe as many as a million, Florida citizens, turning back the clock decades and making Florida the most punitive state in the country when it comes to disenfranchising people with...

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Members of Congress Join National Effort to Restore Voting Rights to Millions of Americans

Posted July 29, 2009 | 16:40:31 (EST)

It turns out democracy breeds strange bedfellows. On Friday, Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) and Representative John Conyers (D-MI) introduced the Democracy Restoration Act of 2009, a bill that seeks to restore voting rights in federal elections to nearly 4 million American citizens with past criminal convictions who are...

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Restoring the Right To Vote Gains Momentum

Posted April 9, 2007 | 23:11:25 (EST)

Florida, the scene of infamous election-day chaos and massive voter purges during the 2000 presidential election, took an important step towards resolving its democratic crisis yesterday. With the stroke of a pen, Governor Charlie Crist issued new Rules of Executive Clemency that restore voting rights to potentially hundreds of thousands...

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