I think less than 5% of the eligible voter population votes.
If you figure that a majority of black males have gone through the justice system in some way and that once convicted of a "felony", including victimless, non-violent crimes such as drug possession, you are permanently stripped of your right to vote, you have an interesting new form of vote restriction, don't you?
I did the calculation once. In a really good election turn out, 30% of the population votes. Resident aliens, illegals, former felons, mentally ill, retarded, infirm, sick, dying, homeless and children excluded, in a close election, the winner has less than a 15% "mandate" of the people you see out your car window.
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