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felony disenfranchisement
May 3, 2021
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Matt Ford
A Racist Cop Threatened to Weaponize the Law to Disenfranchise Black Voters
“I’m going to charge them with whatever felonies I can to take away their ability to vote.”
October 28, 2020
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Melissa Gira Grant
Getting Out the Vote in the Maze of Mass Incarceration
Denying people the vote is presumed—wrongly—to be part of the deprivation of being locked up.
August 12, 2020
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The Politics of Everything
The Women Who Still Can’t Vote
Why the work of the Nineteenth Amendment is far from over
August 10, 2020
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Melissa Gira Grant
The Unfinished Business of Women’s Suffrage
The women who remain locked out of the right to vote are the fractured legacy of a fractured movement.
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