About 4.7 million Americans, more than 2 percent of the adult
population, are barred from voting because of a felony conviction.
Denying the vote to ex-offenders is antidemocratic, and undermines the
nation's commitment to rehabilitating people who have paid their debt
to society. Felon disenfranchisement laws also have a sizable
racial impact: 13 percent of black men have had their votes taken away,
seven times the national average. [more]
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