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As of October 2020, it was estimated that 5.1 million voting-age US citizens were disenfranchised for the 2020 presidential election on account of a felony conviction, 1 in 44 citizens. [3] As suffrage rights are generally bestowed by state law, state felony disenfranchisement laws also apply to elections to federal offices.
In an analysis of this county, wards with many machines per voter were showing Bush majorities, and the wards with relatively few machines per voter were typically in favour of Kerry. The numbers disenfranchised state-wide by this tactic were in the 10s of thousands or 100s of thousands of voters. [39]
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. Disfranchisement can also refer to the revocation of ...
On a special episode (first released on August 14, 2024) of The Excerpt podcast: In response to former President Donald Trump’s lies about a stolen election in 2020, many state legislatures ...
U.S. presidential election popular vote totals as a percentage of the total U.S. population. Note the surge in 1828 (extension of suffrage to non-property-owning white men), the drop from 1890 to 1910 (when Southern states disenfranchised most African Americans and many poor whites), and another surge in 1920 (extension of suffrage to women).
The memo, entitled “Threats to Democracy in Battleground States,” outlines instances of what they argued were voter suppression in each battleground state, including in Georgia where the 2021 ...
The state elections commission hadn’t heard of similar oversights anywhere else in the state, Wolfe said. Matt Fisher, a spokesperson for the state Republican Party, had no immediate comment.
One analysis of a Florida election in 2012 found that 200,000+ people did not vote because of long lines. [49] Some Floridians were forced to wait 6–7 hours to vote. [1] In 2013, after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act, several states enacted voter ID laws. Some argue that such laws amount to voter ...