The untold story of how a US woman was sentenced to six years for voting

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2. TN has been using the 'justice' system to disenfranchise black voters since the Civil War.

Moses’s home state of Tennessee strips any person convicted of a felony of the right to vote. Nearly 472,000 people of voting age can’t vote in Tennessee because of a felony conviction, the vast majority of whom have completed their sentence, according to the Sentencing Project, a criminal justice non-profit. It’s estimated that more than one in five Black people of voting age in the state can’t vote because of a felony.

from the same article.