Florida, Iowa, Kentucky, Mississippi, Nebraska, Tennessee, Virginia, and Wyoming. (16) Despite their disenfranchisement, individuals with felony convictions continue to be counted as part of State populations for representation purposes in Congress and for the Electoral College. According to author Michelle Alexander in The New Jim Crow, [T]he Census Bureau counts imprisoned individuals as residents of the jurisdiction in which they are incarcerated [through the usual-residence rule]. . (17) Disenfranchising citizens who have been convicted of a criminal offense and who are living and working in the community serves no compelling State interest and hinders their rehabilitation and reintegration into society. (18) Finally, the right to vote is the most basic constitutive act of citizenship. Restoring voting rights in Federal elections to individuals with felony convictions will better integrate these individuals into free society, improve public safety, strengthen the overall reentry process in the United States, and move the United States closer to realizing the rehabilitative goals of its broken carceral system. 3. Definitions For purposes of this Act: (1) Covered individual The term covered individual means an individual who— (A) completes serving a sentence for a conviction under a Federal criminal law on or after December 21, 2018