Republicans who control the governor’s office and both chambers of the legislature have been even less enthused about the voting rights restoration amendment. Not out of any great philosophical allegiance to felon disenfranchisement, a Jim Crow-era policy originally conceived to tamp down black votes. Republicans, who just won the gubernatorial and U.S. Senate elections by miniscule margins, worry that most of those newly registered felons — 415,000 of whom are black (according to Vox) — will vote for Democrats.