“Imagine if just half of those folks could vote,” says a Mississippi advocate who hoped to defeat his state’s practice of permanent felony disenfranchisement.
commented this before and comment the same thing again
if the people that the Democrats and Republicans keep from voting had their rights magically restored don't think either party would win any more elections since this is a nationwide issue but voting is not always restricted using the same legal language
The 1994 Crime Bill marked a shift in the politics of crime and policing in the United States. Sociologist and criminologist William R. Kelly states that, "While the longer-term impact of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 was questionable, the political impact was clear—crime control or 'tough on crime' became a bipartisan issue."[36]