Study Finds 5.85 Million Disenfranchised Voters

Study Finds 5.85 Million Disenfranchised Voters: Nearly six million voting-age adults are blocked from the ballot box this year because of a felony charge, according to a new study (PDF) by the Sentencing Project. That’s a record number of disenfranchised voters — one out of every 40 adults. The study finds that particular communities have more felony records, and thus fewer [...]/p