Posted on 09/29/2016 7:06:05 PM PDT by drewh
Convicted felons serving jail sentences in California county jails will now get to participate in an activity besides three meals a day and recreation time: votingin elections. Governor Jerry Brown signed new legislation into effect as part of a reform backers say will help prisoners transition back into society while still serving time for their crimes. The bill he signed would let thousands of felons doing time in county jails to vote in California elections, the LA Times reported. The new law also reinstates eligibility to vote for those ex-prisoners on probation or being kept under community supervision starting next year.
One state lawmaker, Sen. Patricia Bates, slammed the legislation. It is very disappointing that felons still serving their sentences behind bars will now be able to vote since Governor Brown failed to veto this really bad bill, she said in a statement. But Daniel Zingale, senior vice president of The California Endowment health foundation, told the paper, 'Mass disenfranchisement for minor offenses is a tragic legacy of the Jim Crow era that disproportionately affects and diminishes the power of communities of color.' California's action fits within a broader national push to expand voting rights for ex-felons, with laws getting determined state by state.
Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe has been battling with his state's legislature in the courts over his own effort to restore voting rights. In his latest action, he individually restored voting rights to 13,000 felons. McAuliffe cited the power of 'second chances.'
In Congress, Democrats have introduced legislation to restore voting rights in federal elections to criminals upon release from jail, while Kentucky Senator Rand Paul introduced legislation to restore voting rights to non-violent offenders. 'It would be transformative if everybody voted, President Obama told a Cleveland crowd last year.
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I know every vote counts, but all this really does is make the chance of a Republican winning the electoral and not the popular slightly more possible, no?
Not like CA will ever be in play again for us at national level.
ROFL...
Who cares, it’s California & NOT a swing State!
Define "harm nobody" felons. Destroy property/steall from folks savings accounts??????
I think it’s just “Jefferson”.
And .. I don’t know what allowing Felons to vote has to do with Jefferson.
Did I miss something ..??
Our species will never make it to the stars.
Half-- actually well more than half -- of our race wants to kill themselves and the entire race with them.
In a way, it is good we will fizzle out on the planet Earth.
We should not pollute and infect the sanity that surely exists in other interstellar races.
I keep saying Trump needs to go into a couple of prisons like Johnny Cash did. Do an outreach, give them hope for a new and improved America.
Stocks should line Pennsylvania Avenue so We The People can throw feces and garbage at America’s traitors. Since Pennsylvania Avenue isn’t long enough for the hordes of DC traitors, line all the streets in DC with stocks. Bringing back jobs and making America great again!!
Go Trump 2016
ABSOLUTELY
Assault, stealing etc are violent. Smoking a joint ain’t.
“Stocks should line Pennsylvania Avenue so We The People can throw feces and garbage at Americas traitors.”
Make that DEAD American traitors!
Like voting in California really matters anymore?
As an example, for Senator, we have a leftist woman who dropped her Anglo husband’s surname for her Latino maiden name to get elected to as Congress critter in the first place. Her opponent is an UBER-leftist woman who is our current State Attorney General, upping the ante once she finished messing up the courts in SF as the city’s AG.
Oh yeah, both are Demo-rats, thanks to our “top two advance” primaries.
Moonbeam and his party don’t even need their votes. The Dems control California politically from the governorship down to dog catcher.
I should have copied and pasted the line I was referring to. You said the state was a wasteland except for the San Diego area. Jefferson doesn’t sound like a wasteland to me, but maybe it is.
In the mean time, Dems cry foul over voter registration at Chick Fil A
I thought this was satire, but it’s not.
“Susan McGrath, leader of the Stonewall Democrats and head of the Pinellas Democratic Party, said the decision to use Chick-fil-A would be similar to a Democratic supervisor of elections holding the event at Planned Parenthood.”
When you’re having wild fires (started by who knows ..???) in areas where you’re supposed to be growing FOOD; I’d say a lot of the food supply usually from this state will not be very good this year.
And .. we’re not having lightning strikes starting the fires, and they are starting in unusual places; places that are very difficult to reach with fire trucks and other fire equipment.
And .. several times, it has turned out later that it was determined to be MANMADE .. in other words .. actively set on fire by someone. And .. that has happened right here in San Diego, as well as in grazing land and forestry areas.
Is anyone still confused as to why Hillary is 20 points ahead of Trump in California?
Well, this is going to work out well.
“Mass disenfranchisement for minor offenses is a tragic legacy of the Jim Crow era that disproportionately affects and diminishes the power of communities of color.’”
If a felony is a minor offense, what constitutes a major offense?
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