Also, seems kind of scary that this implies a future where so many people are in prison that their vote could actually tip the balance ?

  • HobbitFoot
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    301 year ago

    Because they aren’t getting rid of one vote, but tens of thousands.

    There are a lot of Republican states that are Republican mainly due to voter suppression.

    • prole
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      91 year ago

      It’s win/win for them. Thousands of fewer (likely mostly) Democratic leaning voters, and thousands of additional people counted in their census.