{"id":852,"date":"2008-10-02T16:47:32","date_gmt":"2008-10-02T21:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/?p=852"},"modified":"2008-10-02T19:21:46","modified_gmt":"2008-10-03T00:21:46","slug":"lets-do-the-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2008\/10\/02\/lets-do-the-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s do the numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>INSTITUTE INDEX<\/strong><br \/>\nDisenfranchised by design<\/p>\n<p>Estimated number of Americans who have currently or permanently lost their voting rights because of a felony conviction:<strong> 5.3 million<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Of those, number that are ex-offenders who have completed their sentences:<strong> 2.1 million<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Number of black men who are disenfranchised as a result of a felony conviction:<strong> 1.4 million<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Percentage of black men that represents:<strong> 13<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Number of times by which black men&#8217;s disenfranchisement rate exceeds the national average:<strong> 7<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In states that disenfranchise ex-offenders, percent of black men who may permanently lose their right to vote:<strong> 40<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Number of states that permit even inmates to vote:<strong> 2*<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Number of states that deny voting rights to all convicted felons for life:<strong> 2**<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Number of Virginians permanently disenfranchised as of 2004 due to felony convictions:<strong> 377,000<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Of those disenfranchised Virginians, percent who are black:<strong> 55<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Number of nonviolent felons who&#8217;ve had their voting rights restored by Virginia&#8217;s two recent Democratic governors:<strong> 5,990<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Number of Alabama inmates who filled out voter registration forms over the course of two days last month before the effort was halted by the Republican prison commissioner:<strong> 80<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nPercent of South Carolina elections officials who answered incorrectly when surveyed last month about ex-felons&#8217; voting rights:<strong> 48<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Estimated number of ex-felons who were unable to vote in Florida during the 2004 election:<strong> 960,000<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>George Bush&#8217;s winning margin over John Kerry in Florida that year:<strong> 380,978<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>* Maine and Vermont<\/p>\n<p>** Kentucky and Virginia<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAll sources on file with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southernstudies.org\/\">Institute for Southern Studies<\/a>. For more information, e-mail sue@southernstudies.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INSTITUTE INDEX Disenfranchised by design Estimated number of Americans who have currently or permanently lost their voting rights because of a felony conviction: 5.3 million Of those, number that are ex-offenders who have completed their sentences: 2.1 million Number of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2008\/10\/02\/lets-do-the-numbers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-newscommentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=852"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":859,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions\/859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}