While inmates aren’t allowed to vote in 48 states, they count for the purposes of representation.
Continuing to count inmates where they are imprisoned, voting-rights advocates say, unfairly shifts political power from Black and Latino communities, which are overrepresented in the criminal justice system, to rural White communities, where many of the nation’s state and federal prisons are located. It is a practice that has become known as “prison gerrymandering.”
Researchers found that one rural district would lose 21,112 residents if inmates were counted in their home communities.
“This is very reminiscent of the Three-Fifths Compromise, of how black and brown bodies are still being used to this day in most places around the United States to advantage White votes and White political influence,”
Our elections have never been free or fair. The corruption runs deep, the republicans are the racist poison within.
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