DETROIT – For the first time ever, 60-year-old Kerwin Brown-El cast a ballot Tuesday afternoon.
“It felt really good, really good,” he said
Brown-El couldn’t vote because he has been incarcerated. He was released from prison and discharged from parole in 2018. His fiancée, Veronica Harrison, 34, of Detroit helped him fill out his first ballot.
Brown-El cast his vote in the Michegan Democratic primary for former Vice President Joe Biden at his polling place at Thurgood Marshall Elementary School in Detroit.
“I feel that he’s going to reinstate a lot of the programs that Donald Trump eliminated,” Brown-El said. “We need unification for the country. We’re too angry. We’re too disrespectful.”
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Michigan is among 16 states and the District of Columbia where people convicted of crimes lose their voting rights only while incarcerated and automatically have their rights restored upon release, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Michiganders can vote while on parole or probation.
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