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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 ...
In response to former President Donald Trump's lies about a stolen election in 2020, many state legislatures implemented new laws restricting voter access to curtail the non-existent fraud.
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).
A poll tax is a tax of a fixed sum on every liable individual (typically every adult), without reference to income or resources. Various privileges of citizenship, including voter registration or issuance of driving licenses and resident hunting and fishing licenses, were conditioned on payment of poll taxes to encourage the collection of this tax revenue.
On January 11, the Center for Election Confidence released a study of the effects of ranked choice voting (RCV). (The center, previously known as the Lawyers Democracy Fund, opposes RCV.)
Strict voter ID laws may present "substantial barriers" for transgender people who do not have identification that reflects their preferred gender. Strict ID laws could disenfranchise 78,000 ...