teleSUR English | 2/13/2016
Since prisons are largely in rural, white areas, including prisoners who can’t vote in population counts increases the influence of rural, white voters.
Minority populations in South Carolina and Nevada are seen as possible game changers in the presidential primaries, but their influence would be greater were it not for prison gerrymandering, which boosts the power of white rural voters.
The number of delegates each state gets in the Electoral College system equals the number of people it sends to Congress, which is determined by census data. The last census in 2011 counted prisoners — who cannot vote — in districts where they were imprisoned.
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Naomi Cohen | journalist 