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The nation is missing millions of voters due to lack of rights for former felons

  • Written by Kevin B. Smith, Professor of Political Science, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
imageJavon Jackson, center, was able to register to vote following passage of a 2019 Nevada law that restored voting rights to formerly incarcerated individuals.AP Photo/John Locher

If you gathered every American with a prison record into one contiguous territory and admitted it to the union, you would create the 12th-largest state. It would be home to a...

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