books.google.com - In the 2004 presidential election, 4,686,539 Americans—a population greater than the city of Los Angeles—were barred from the polls. In a country that has extended suffrage to virtually every other class of citizen, ex-felons are the sole segment of our population deemed unworthy to exercise what...http://books.google.com/books/about/The_disenfranchisement_of_ex_felons.html?id=N_Uqej5_axIC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe disenfranchisement of ex-felons