The Sentencing Project estimates 6 million citizens were ineligible to vote during the midterm elections because of felony convictions. That included 4.7 million not incarcerated who live in the 34 states that ban voting for those on probation, parole or who have completed sentences.

The U.S. has the highest incarceration rate in the world with 22 percent of the prisoners — 737 people behind bars for every 100,000 people. Russia is a second at 618. For comparison’s sake, Britain is at 148 and Japan, 62.

Iowa, though, has a provision in the state constitution denying voting rights to anyone committing “infamous crimes.”

In a 4-3 decision in 2016, the Iowa Supreme Court reaffirmed that the state constitution “infamous crimes” is determined to be felonies. It previously allowed a politician convicted of a misdemeanor to seek office.

Gov. Kim Reynolds, a Republican, has lifted the ban on 114 people during 2018-19 and, according to her office, another eight may have their rights restored.