you lose. Prison gerrymandering is a nothing-burger.Of course Prison gerrymandering is a nothing burger, but makes for great "faux" outrage.
there are 235 MILLION people of voting age.
there are 2.2 MILLION prisoners of all races in local/state/federal prisons.
that's less than 1% sport, including whites. the numbers for only blacks and hispanics it's less than 1 million. that's less than half of 1 percent.
So ... tell me again why this is such a unfair disadvantage to Democrats????
Or better still ... why it's such an advantage to Republicans? Originally Posted by The_Waco_Kid
As you state, the volumes are very small in regards to overall population. Many of the those in the "system" don't have permanent addresses so how do proclaim what their "home" district should be. Many will spend at least one census cycle or more incarcerated so where do you count them?
They either become non-entities or are counted where they "reside", which happens to be the particular prison they are "attached" to.
And regardless of all the bluster about voting rights, the Constitution is clear on the States ability to restrict or remove voting rights based on rebellion or crime. 48 states choose to do so at various levels, 2 seem not to. To pander about it in the Federal election process is just that as I said earlier, pandering.