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In Just Two States, All Prisoners Can Vote. Here's Why Few Do.
The Marshall Project ^ | June 11, 2019 | Nicole Lewis

Posted on 09/20/2019 12:41:45 PM PDT by Norski

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"When Sen. Bernie Sanders championed voting rights for [Democrat-supporting] prisoners [??? emphasis added] during a CNN town hall, he spotlighted an intensifying national debate about why going to prison means losing the right to vote."
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument

Regardless what misguided, post-17th Amendment ratification Sen. Sanders wants us to think about politically correct voting rights for criminals, patriots are reminded that Section 2 of the Constitution’s 14th Amendment makes it clear that criminals don’t have the right to vote.

”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 shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State."

Remember in November 2020!

MAGA! Now KAG! (Keep America Great!)

Laura Ingraham: “Make America Greater!”

21 posted on 09/20/2019 1:11:05 PM PDT by Amendment10
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To: TheTimeOfMan

I’d be happy with that, but requiring that they be married to a woman who was mother of at least two children of the voter would turn things up another notch.

Heads of household looking out for everyone.


22 posted on 09/20/2019 1:16:06 PM PDT by Hieronymus ("I shall drink--to the Pope, if you please,-still, to Conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.")
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To: Amendment10

May we ask you to please re-post an analysis of the “Delphi Technique and how to disrupt it, for the benefit of FR.

The link to do so is nonfunctional.

Thank you.


23 posted on 09/20/2019 4:03:08 PM PDT by Norski
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To: Norski

Yes. That seems most likely.


24 posted on 09/20/2019 7:10:49 PM PDT by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: DannyTN
If prisoners are allowed to vote, I hope they have access to resources to educate themselves about the candidates and platforms.

Yeah, the unionRAT guards probably tell them everything they need to know.

25 posted on 09/20/2019 7:20:30 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (We need to reach across the aisle, extend a hand...And slap the crap out of them)
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