2 U.S.C. § 6 : US Code - Section 6: Reduction of representation

Search 2 U.S.C. § 6 : US Code - Section 6: Reduction of representation

Should any State deny or abridge the right of any of the male
inhabitants thereof, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of
the United States, to vote at any election named in the amendment
to the Constitution, article 14, section 2, except for
participation in the rebellion or other crime, the number of
Representatives apportioned to such State shall be reduced in the
proportion which the number of such male citizens shall have to the
whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such
State.