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Tennessee has become America’s most efficient state at stripping its citizens of voting rights, according to an analysis for The New York Times — to the point the Volunteer State has become a “master class in undermining democracy.” The issue comes back to felony disenfranchisement laws, which became commonplace throughout Southern states following the end of slavery, since the justice system of several states for decades made it possible to essentially fabricate charges against Black Americans as needed, and then use that as pretext to eliminate voting rights. In recent years, most states wit…

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