Posted on 04/14/2019 5:21:50 PM PDT by rogerantone1
Democrats used to argue that once felons had served their time, they had paid their debts to society and should be able to vote. Now, top-tier presidential candidate Bernie Sanders wants felons to never lose their right to vote, not even while they’re in prison.
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What about for cell president?
They should also be able to take out a mortgage on a home and run a business.
Like they were in jail...
They should also be able to take out a mortgage on a home and run a business.
Like they were in jail...
FUNNY, A story was told to me of a prison guard in a major city who found a letter an inmate wrote to a friend that he had amassed a few hundred thou to invest in buying buildings to rent. He received this money through fraudulent slip and fall cases with the city while in jail and represented by legal aid lawyers who were probably getting a vig
But but but they’re reliable democrats!!!
Felons shouldn’t vote, period!
They, by their conduct, have forfeited certain rights of citizenship. It should take extraordinary acts of good citizenship for a felon to be granted a right to vote.
Remember, felonies used to have a single punishment: death.
”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 [emphases added], 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 twenty-one years of age in such State."
Remember in November 2020!
MAGA!
Back in the day, losing one’s right to vote was a consequence of committing a felony. You forfeit your privilege to participate in our democracy (yes, I know it’s a Republic) when you commit major crimes. MY vote, and those of other law-abiding citizens, should not be offset by those who cannot conform to the laws of this land. Made sense to me then and it still does.
The largest democracy with 800 registered voters even does not permit felons to vote. And every voter must have a photo ID issued by the gov’t.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Indian_general_election
“Eligible voters must be Indian citizens, an ordinary resident of the polling area of the constituency and possess a valid voter identification card issued by the Election Commission of India. Some people convicted of electoral or other offences are barred from voting”
Yes, and our founding fathers stood against cruel or unusual punishment. I would seriously disagree with you. If a felon has paid his debt to society, his civil rights should be restored and eventually, if he has seen the error of his ways and commits no more crimes, his record should be sealed/expunged. We are now becoming as harsh and as cruel as the King we fought against. What is next, a scarlet letter?
Says 900 million , but what is 3rd gender 38,325
They were prohibiting drawing and quartering. Look it up. You have it all backwards. The king would cut off hand of theives and boil criminals alive.
What does pay your debt to society mean? Does it mean you’ve paid your court costs? Does it mean you’ve paid restitution? Does it mean the people you injured forgive you? In Virginia none of that matters. You can have pending felony charges and get your rights restored. That’s nuts and that’s what you’re for.
They were prohibiting drawing and quartering. Look it up. You have it all backwards. The king would cut off hand of theives and boil criminals alive.
What does pay your debt to society mean? Does it mean you’ve paid your court costs? Does it mean you’ve paid restitution? Does it mean the people you injured forgive you? In Virginia none of that matters. You can have pending felony charges and get your rights restored. That’s nuts and that’s what you’re for.
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