robert peoples
  
  
    
      
  
  
  
      
  
  
  
    
  
    
        
    
          
              
            
            
            
        July 9, 2020 -
        
  
        States across the country require people with felony convictions to purchase their voting rights back if they ever want to cast a ballot again. It is a mechanism that felony disenfranchisement schemes increasingly rely upon, and it marks a return to the sordid tactics of Jim Crow.