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“As Dad used to say, ‘A voteless people is a powerless people,’ and one of the most important steps that we can take is that short step to the ballot box.”

“These people have often been forgotten, many times voiceless and voteless,” he said.

“The justification for the city losing the franchise, and for maintaining it as a voteless capital of the democracy, was principally about race.”

The huge populations of voteless citizens are partly a byproduct of harsh sentencing laws and mass incarceration that swept the country in recent decades.

But up until that time, they’re like a Zombie army of voteless pegs to be moved around on a gerrymandering board.