Felon Disenfranchisement

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(04-18-2018, 09:43 PM)michaelsean Wrote: Right but his point is you are still disenfranchising more whites than blacks so as a racist it’s counterproductive.

Not true because we're looking at what proportion are you disenfranchising. 

In Minnesota, for example, there are 52,000 disenfranchised voters. 

4,740,450 white people in Minnesota with 36,400 of them being disenfranchised. This removes 0.77% of their voting population.
836,550 minorities with 15,600 being disenfranchised. This removes 1.86% of their voting population. 

So the argument still exists that a higher percentage of minorities are affected. We know


If I argue it's partisan, I can look at percentages from 2016 exit polls to draw some conclusions. 57% of white people voted GOP, so that's a net loss of 5,096 republican voters. With minorities, it's 74%, so that's a net loss of 7,488 democratic voters.

All in all, Republicans trade 5,100 votes of theirs to lose 7,500 Democratic votes for a net game of a 2,400 votes. 

Certainly seems inconsequential, but it's there. 



I've also seen the numbers of 1 in every 13 people who are black versus 1 in every 56 people who are white. 

So there are 156,000,000 eligible white voters and 3.5 million white people who cannot vote. Meanwhile there are  27,000,000 eligible black voters and 3.2 million black people who cannot vote. 

At this point, it is NOT inconsequential. 2.19% of White people who are old enough to vote cannot while 10.6% of black people who are old enough to vote cannot. If we play the partisan numbers, that's 4.5m non GOP voters lost and only 2.08m GOP voters loss for a net gain of 2.42m voters.