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Report Lobbies for New Voting Bloc: Millions of Ex-Offenders

Loaded on Sept. 9, 2016

Filed under: Voting, Statistics/Trends, Release and Reentry, Collateral consequences of prison. Location: United States of America.

Following the recent presidential election, pundits debated which demographic—Latinos, African-Americans, college students or single women—made the difference. A study shows, however, that the greatest impact on election results might have been the disenfranchisement of millions of American citizens who were forbidden from voting.

According to a report from …

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