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[–] -3 points 18 hours ago (5 children)

You are too ignorant to be that smug.

Or is it just racism? Who doesn't know that Black people are wildly overrepresented in the prison population? Or that Black people overwhelmingly vote Democrat? Those are really basic facts.

The 1.1% you quote, specifically only refers to the non Black population. It's 5%-10% of the Black population. Which ends up being 2% of the total population of the country. Though it varies wildly from state to state. In some states it is as high as 6% of the total population.

That is by no means insignificant.

https://www.sentencingproject.org/reports/locked-out-2024-four-million-denied-voting-rights-due-to-a-felony-conviction//

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  • [–] 6 points 18 hours ago* (4 children)

    I got my numbers from the exact same source. Your own link contradicts you. 4 million is not 2% of the US pop. 4 million is 1.1% of the population.

    I never said they were split 50/50. I said they were distributed.

    Meaning it's not "four million votes for Democrats"

    And fuck you for assuming my ethics. I think the fact that felons can't vote is absolutely immoral. Nobody should be deprived of their vote.

    But I don't lie about statistics.

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  • [–] 0 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

    In 2024, an estimated 4 million Americans, representing 1.7% of the voting-age population, will be ineligible to vote.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 hours ago* (2 children)

    2024

    I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure it's 2026 now and our population is growing, not shrinking

    And that 4m number is down from their 2022 report (4.4m), so you can't tell me the felon population has grown with the US population

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  • [–] 1 point 1 hour ago (1 child)

    So you just made up a number that felt good to you, but demanded hard sources from me? I think you have done a fine job of expressing the validity of yourself as a source. Thank you.

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