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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.
It would not be unprecedented for a politician to serve in office as a convicted felon. Former Alaska Republican Sen. Ted Stevens, for example, was found guilty of seven felony charges of making ...
Disfranchisement, also disenfranchisement (which has become more common since 1982) [1] or voter disqualification, is the restriction of suffrage (the right to vote) of a person or group of people, or a practice that has the effect of preventing someone from exercising the right to vote.
Now that a New York jury has convicted former President Donald Trump of all 34 felony charges of falsifying business records, the next obvious question is: Can a convicted felon run for president?
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 ...
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 ...
After yesterday's verdict, there was immediate questions as to whether Donald Trump will able to vote for himself, or in any election, in Florida.. Trump was found guilty on all 34 counts in his ...