{"id":3728,"date":"2020-10-31T17:21:58","date_gmt":"2020-10-31T17:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3728"},"modified":"2020-10-31T17:21:58","modified_gmt":"2020-10-31T17:21:58","slug":"5-2-million-people-cant-vote-due-to-their-felony-record-according-to-a-new-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3728","title":{"rendered":"5.2 million people can\u2019t vote due to their felony record, according to a new report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“Nearly 5.2 million Americans won\u2019t be able to vote in this year\u2019s election due to their felony record, according to a new report<\/a> from the Sentencing Project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s an improvement from 2016, when 6.1 million couldn\u2019t vote due to a felony record. But it means 2.3 percent of Americans old enough to vote, including 6.3 percent of Black people otherwise eligible to vote, still don\u2019t have a say in the country\u2019s democracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The vast majority of people prohibited from voting aren\u2019t in prison. Only 25 percent of people disenfranchised are in prison or jail, while 10 percent are on parole and 22 percent are on felony probation. The rest \u2014 43 percent \u2014 have completed their sentences but still can\u2019t vote.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Only Maine and Vermont let everyone vote, even while they\u2019re in prison. The rest impose some restrictions on voting rights \u2014 in prison, on parole, on probation, some or all of the above, or\u00a0after<\/em>\u00a0people complete these sentences.”\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/10\/14\/21515850\/voting-rights-sentencing-project-felon-disenfranchisement<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Nearly 5.2 million Americans won\u2019t be able to vote in this year\u2019s election due to their felony record, according to a new report from the Sentencing Project.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s an improvement from 2016, when 6.1 million couldn\u2019t vote due to a felony record. But it means 2.3 percent of Americans old enough to vote, including 6.3 percent of Black people otherwise eligible to vote, still don\u2019t have a say in the country\u2019s democracy.<\/p>\n

The vast majority of people prohibited from voting aren\u2019t in prison. Only 25 percent of people disenfranchised are in prison or jail, while 10 percent are on parole and 22 percent are on felony probation. The rest \u2014 43 percent \u2014 have completed their sentences but still can\u2019t vote.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“Only Maine and Vermont let everyone vote, even while they\u2019re in prison. The rest impose some restrictions on voting rights \u2014 in prison, on parole, on probation, some or all of the above, or after people complete these sentences.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[479],"class_list":["post-3728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-voting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3729,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3728\/revisions\/3729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}