The Sentencing Project

Government, Politics & Issues

Voter disenfranchisement rates have decreased, but still more than double for Black Missourians

Andrea Y. Henderson

The Sentencing Project’s Locked Out 2024 report estimates that 1.7% of Missourians over 18 can’t vote because they have felony convictions. That rate is more than double for Black Missourians. Missouri has the 14th-highest disenfranchisement rate in the country.