Turn it around: "Why are so many people in the United States denied their right to vote?" * prisoners and former criminals can't vote in many places - https:/

Turn it around: "Why are so many people in the United States denied their right to vote?" * prisoners and former criminals can't vote in many places - https://www.sentencingproject.org/issues/felony-disenfranchisement/ https://www.sentencingproject.org/issues/felony-disenfranchi... * (this just got a little better - Florida just passed an amendment that will give the vote back to 1.4mil former felons, which is a full 1/10 of the state's population and 1/5 of its African-American population, that should make their next elections a ton of fun) * slashing funds to the part of government that buys/maintains/runs the voting system means you have to go further to vote, which is much easier if you have a white-collar job that gives you paid time off and can afford a car (vote-by-mail helps fix this one a LOT, I live in Seattle and it only took me like a half hour sitting at home skimming election guides, plus putting it in the mail a couple days later) * aggressive campaigns of preventing "voter fraud" can make having sufficient ID expensive in both time and money, which are hard to come by when you're working two part-time jobs with erratic hours