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This is a 7 page paper which discusses the possible impact on the democratic process by the disenfranchisement of felons and ex-felons.
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various states, the differences in those laws, and the impact that those laws have on minority citizens, the result of felon and ex-felon disenfranchisement deserves closure examination. There have
been inequitable drug laws, racial profiling and other discriminatory laws for years. These laws have resulted in a rise in the prison populations and a growing difference between the
incarceration rates of whites and minorities. Laws that exclude felons and ex-felons from voting create an even more disproportionate effect on the electoral processes. DISCUSSION OF THE ISSUES
There appears to be a continual rise in the number of individuals who are incarcerated which are members of the minority population in
the United States, either African-Americans or those of Latino descent (Preuhs, 2001). Several studies have been conducted in an attempt to validate the perceptions by many that the core
of the disenfranchisement policies is founded in racial discrimination. Following the national elections of 2000, the concern over the number of felons and ex-felons that were not allowed
to vote became more popular. It is put forward as fact, that based on the estimate of the number of felons currently residing in the State of Florida and
the reported history of the voting tendencies of black and whites the outcome would have been different if those felons had been able to vote (Preuhs, 2001). It is projected
that if only eight-tenths of one percent of the adult felons in Florida had voted in the elections and the allocation of votes made were 60 percent of whites voting
for the Republican candidate, Governor George W. Bush and a mere 80 percent of the black population voting for Vice President Gore, Gore may have received more than 538 votes
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