“perhaps a largely forgotten provision of the Constitution offers a solution to safeguard American democracy. Created amid some of the country\u2019s most violent clashes over voting rights, Section 2 of the 14th Amendment provides a harsh penalty for any state where the right to vote is denied \u201cor in any way abridged.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“perhaps a largely forgotten provision of the Constitution offers a solution to safeguard American democracy. Created amid some of the country\u2019s most violent clashes over voting rights, Section 2 of the 14th Amendment provides a harsh penalty for any state where the right to vote is denied \u201cor in any way abridged.\u201d<\/p>\n A state that crosses the line would lose a percentage of its seats in the House of Representatives in proportion to how many voters it disenfranchises. If a state abridges voting rights for, say, 10 percent of its eligible voters, that state would lose 10 percent of its representatives \u2014 and with fewer House seats, it would get fewer votes in the Electoral College, too.”<\/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":[429,790,431,660,198,970,1213,759,528,479],"class_list":["post-8743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-constitution","tag-courts","tag-democracy","tag-dictatorship","tag-elections","tag-illiberal-democracy","tag-judiciary","tag-states","tag-supreme-court","tag-voting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8743","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=8743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8744,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8743\/revisions\/8744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
A state that crosses the line would lose a percentage of its seats in the House of Representatives in proportion to how many voters it disenfranchises. If a state abridges voting rights for, say, 10 percent of its eligible voters, that state would lose 10 percent of its representatives \u2014 and with fewer House seats, it would get fewer votes in the Electoral College, too.”
https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2022\/07\/27\/penalty-clause-voting-rights-00046973<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"