Felon Disenfranchisement

[Dill]

(04-18-2018, 04:54 PM)JustWinBaby Wrote: So your claim is the purpose or reason for this is driven by racism, despite the fact the majority of disenfranchised voters are [very likely] white?

Unsurprisingly [sarcasm], it's hard to get the total/exact numbers - which the absolute numbers would be the relevant criteria to making a claim it's race based.  While minorities are disproportionately disenfranchised, it's likely still the case they are outnumbered by white felons.

Only numbers I could find was in Florida, 56% of disenfranchised voters were white....70% in Minnesota.

And, you know, most of those white felons are probably skinheads and they vote 100% Republican (or so I've heard).

LOL, but suppose those white felons are not all skinheads and their vote divides evenly between both parties, while the vote of their black colleagues does not?  Removing a proportionally higher number of blacks from voter rolls could not have much effect when 9 of 10 regularly vote Democrat? And the disenfranchisers don't know that?

Minnesota, a "Yankee" state not known for its history of voter disenfranchisement by race, only denies the vote to felons serving time or "on paper"--not permanently.https://www.revisor.mn.gov/st  atutes/?id=609.165
609.165 RESTORATION OF CIVIL RIGHTS; POSSESSION OF FIREARMS AND AMMUNITION.
Subdivision 1.Restoration.
When a person has been deprived of civil rights by reason of conviction of a crime and is thereafter discharged, such discharge shall restore the person to all civil rights and to full citizenship, with full right to vote and hold office, the same as if such conviction had not taken place, and the order of discharge shall so provide

So I don't discern much effort to shave off minority votes there.

Florida is a different story. http://www.sentencingproject.org/the-facts/#map

It is not hard to get "exact numbers" of whom has been disenfranchised and where.  Why fight so hard to deny this history?