Should be outlawed for federal elections - but no chance of that now.
Given that Pres. Trump’s institutionally indoctrinated constitutional “experts” haven’t properly advised him on this issue, patriots need to get word to Pres. Trump to consider that this practice is probably (imo) a violation of Section 2 of the 14th Amendment, and to do something about it.
”14th Amendment, Section 2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens [emphases added] twenty-one years of age in such State."
Note that later-ratified voting rights amendments affect how Section 2 is interpreted.