The Impact of Felony Disenfranchisement

• In Event: Much Sound and Fury or the New Jim Crow? The Twenty-First Century's Restrictive New Voting Laws in the States

Brief Overview

The analysis showed that in 2016, a higher percentage of the African-American population disenfranchised by these laws correlated with lower voter turnout and a larger shift toward the GOP, relative to 2012.

Author

• Linda Trautman, Ohio University-Lancaster Campus