Look at the demographics of those convicted felons. I suspect you’ll see certain trends in who tends to be targeted for arrest—given that rates of criminality are broadly equivalent across demographic groups—that align closely with who the people in power don’t want to have any power of their own.

Mississippi is a very obvious case. The white power structure there simply does not want to allow black people to vote so they use all available means to prevent that.

What’s more, those felons still count towards the state population count, and thus, the number of electoral college votes of the state…

Sounds like taxation without representation to me

Counting for the population but not actually able to vote? Where have I heard this before...

The effects of the Fentanyl crisis is truly going to haunt the US for decades to come. absolutely unbelievable.

Uh, maybe the 1994 crime bill?