Posted on 01/08/2019 7:36:20 AM PST by Blue House Sue
Tuesday is a historic day in Florida. Under an amendment passed by the voters in November, as many as 1.4 million felons are regaining the right to vote. The referendum overturned a 150-year-old law that permanently disenfranchised people with felony convictions.
Before the change, people who served their time could apply for clemency to a board headed by the governor. But the cumbersome process and a multiyear backlog meant that only a small percentage applied.
As a result, more than 10 percent of Florida's adult population was not eligible to vote. Desmond Meade who helped organize the referendum campaign says that changed Nov. 6. "We had over 5.1 million voters that voted yes on Amendment 4," he says. "Not one of those votes was based on hate. Not one of those votes was based on fear, but rather votes of love."
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Felons should not vote.
OR
Give felons their gun rights back.
Choose.
1 in 10 are felons, and yet people WANT them to vote? What distinguishes a felony from a misdemeanor is the severity of the impact of their crime on society.
A felony used to be considered an act of subversion against civilized society, and a defacto declaration of your intent to abandon it.
But when felony becomes the new black I guess . . .
Look at Prop 187 (1994) and Prop 8 (2008) in California and see what Federal judges can do when it deals with the decisions done by the voters.
SEEEEE???
I knew it.
I disproved your assertion that a Federal Judge cannot overturn a State ballot initiative, and instead of acknowledging you were wrong, you breezed right by it and posted something unrelated.
You are a leftist, by behavior alone.
Florida now has a law on felons voting that is similarly situated with the law in Texas.
Felons should not vote.
OR
Give felons their gun rights back.
Choose.
There is nothing unconstitutional about the new Florida law.
Why?
Do felons automatically vote Democrat?
I would guess many ex-convicts don’t bother to vote at all, or if they are truly rehabilitated would vote for Law and Order, having been in the reality of the prison population.
Richard Pryor did a prison show on his comedy tour once and having been in prison himself, was asked about what he thought about prisons. He replied, “Thank God we have prisons.”.......................
So says you. Unless you are a Federal Judge, your opinion is meaningless.
Once they have completed their obligation to their state, felons who did not murder and did not commit a sex crime, should have all their rights.
And that’s what the Florida law does.
Poll after poll asking felons who are interested in voting who they plan to vote for shows the opposite. The vast majority of ex-felons who are engaged politically are hardcore Democrats. It may have something to do with the fact that a large portion of them are young black males.
I see no restoration of felon firearms rights in the ballot initiative.
How do we know that Democrats didn’t cheat this passage of this amendment at the ballot box? Insights?
PDJT needs to work with the states to prohibit winner-take-all laws for electoral votes. These laws are unconstitutional under the 12th Amendment imo.
Excerpted from the 12th Amendment:
"The Electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice-President, and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President, and of all persons voted for as Vice- President, and of the number of votes for each, which lists they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate [emphasis added]; …"
Please describe the “positive” of letting felons vote except to help Marxist Liberals get into office?
As of today, most states permit former felons to vote, and I have yet to see a federal court trample State’ Rights and strike down a state law that restores voting rights to felons.
“”We had over 5.1 million voters that voted yes on Amendment 4,” he says. “Not one of those votes was based on hate. Not one of those votes was based on fear, but rather votes of love.”
Anytime someone says something this moronic, you know that absolute disaster is just around the corner. Harken to Occasional Cortex says it’s about “morality” not about “facts”.
As if either of these idiots have any idea of what morality is in the first place. One and a half million drug-addled ex-felons get to vote Democrat next time for free drugs and free health care. You can’t fix stupid.
I see no restoration of felon firearms rights in the ballot initiative.
So felons who went to prison for vote fraud should be allowed to go right back to participating in the same process once they are out of prison, with no questions asked.
Yeah, sounds legit.
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“So felons who went to prison for vote fraud should be allowed to go right back to participating in the same process once they are out of prison, with no questions asked.”
If they are not convicted by the Feds, that question in up to the people of the State of Florida, or any other of the states that permit felons to vote.
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