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As of 2008, over 5.3 million people in the United States were denied the right to vote due to felony disenfranchisement. [18] In the national elections in 2012, the various state felony disenfranchisement laws together blocked an estimated 5.85 million felons from voting, up from 1.2 million in 1976.
Richardson v. Ramirez, 418 U.S. 24 (1974), [1] was a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States in which the Court held, 6–3, that convicted felons could be barred from voting beyond their sentence and parole without violating the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution.
According to the Sentencing Project, as of 2010 an estimated 5.9 million Americans are denied the right to vote because of a felony conviction, a number equivalent to 2.5% of the U.S. voting-age population and a sharp increase from the 1.2 million people affected by felony disenfranchisement in 1976. [101]
Several Kamala Harris voters said they believe she is focused on helping the middle class, not the rich.
It isn't clear how many of the 97,000 eligible felons are among the 1.2 million people the Secretary of State's office says were registered to vote in Nebraska as of Aug. 1 and are ineligible to ...
U.S. Vote Foundation notes that a felony conviction in another state makes a person ineligible to vote in Florida only if the conviction would make the person ineligible to vote in the state where ...
Washington, D.C. passes a law to allow incarcerated felons to vote. [65] People with a felony conviction have their right to vote in Iowa restored with some restrictions and each potential voter must have completed their sentence. [65] People with a felony conviction in New Jersey can vote after release from prison; citizens on parole or ...
While Florida generally makes it challenging for people in the state with felony convictions to regain their voting rights, former President Donald Trump had no issue casting a ballot for himself ...