Washington Post: “Most of the disenfranchised, about 4.7 million, are not incarcerated, including more than 1 million African Americans. Fourteen states restore voting rights when prisoners are released. Maine and Vermont are the only two that allow incarcerated citizens to cast ballots.”
This country has a huge untapped reservoir of convicted felons just waiting to cast an informed vote.
“Desmond Meade, a Florida International University law school graduate, cannot vote because he is a former felon.”
