Posted on 11/07/2004 10:26:40 AM PST by vannrox
Nine states impose lifetime voting bans on convicted felons. In 32 states, felons are allowed to vote after serving their sentence and completing parole. The Reid-Specter amendment would have allowed convicted felons to vote in federal elections only.
After paying their debt to society, felons should be allowed to vote again, Reid said.
Critics argued felons are not the type of people who should participate in elections.
Reid voted for the Reid-Specter amendment. Ensign voted against it.
sphincter.
He's got to go.
That kind of position warrants censure.
I see a large, fast moving bandwagon.
Arlen ain't here fer long.
STOP SPECTER FROM BLOCKING BUSH'S JUDGES
Contact Senator Frist 202-224-3135
Contact Senator Santorum 202-224-6324
Tell them in no uncertain terms that Specter cannot be made Senate Judiciary Chairman
Do NOT take "no" for an answer!
Bush has no Mandate?
Just say "NO" To Specter's Games!
Senate Judiciary Committee GOP Members
Contact Senator Orrin Hatch 202-224-5251
Contact Senator Charles Grassley 202-224-3744
Contact Senator Jon Kyl 202-224-4521
Contact Senator Mike DeWine 202-224-2315
Contact Senator Jeff Sessions 202-224-4124
Contact Senator Lindsey Graham -202-224-5972
Contact Senator Larry Craig 202-224-2752
Contact Senator Saxby Chambliss 202-224-3521
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Good priorities Arlen.
How about increasing the penalties for federal election fraud before loosening the state-mandated restrictions.
Now just why would he want to do that?
OUST SPECTER!!!!!!!!
Ping
I'm beginning to suspect that Specter is a dem mole.
Many states already have procedures in place for felons to apply for reinstatement of voting rights. Something to do with petitioning the Governors of the states.
Bush's Blunder. Supporting a sphincter in the primary.
az
When you lack a firm moral base on which to justify your opinions, appeal to emotion and mob hysteria must rule the day.
Unfortunately, I have a moral base. It includes the concepts of mercy, forgiveness, and when the punishment has been paid its been paid. Futhermore, it includes reason. There are too many false convictions, the ease of getting convictions on circumstantial evidence rises everyday, the duty of the jury decreases with the decadence of the sociey, and what is considered a felony is cheapened everyday.
And that last should be of concern to any thinking person. Felonies are no longer what the common man would term felonies, rape, murder, arson. Felonies everyday include more and more statutary crimes that could not be recognized in a state of nature as being crimes except by the arbitary decree of men.
In other words, if you can define anything you want as a felony, which is now the case, the governmnet could disenfrangize anyone it wants at any time by merely passing a law. Case in point, if gun ownership were a crime, all gun owners would lose the ability to vote. If talking about conservatism were a hate crime as some try to make it, all conservaties would lose the right to vote. If being a Christian minister without a license were a crime, all Christina ministers would lose the right to vote.
Spector is right to oppose preventing ex-felons (you will note the term ex in there as opposed to the title of this post, as the term ex opposes the appeal to emotion and creating mob hysteria, and seeks to impose the freedom loving virtue of reason). Futhermore, Spector is right in another regard. The federal governmnet has the right and duty to set its own standard for its own elections, and states must not be allowed to upsurb that.
This is a State Sovereignity issue.
McCain just isn't quite there (in spector's camp)
yet, but he's workin' on it.
As a Conservative I believe people can change for the better. There's nothing wrong with non-violent felons getting their voting rights back so long as the nature of their crime is considered and an appropriate amount of time has transpired without any more offences. Of course, those who commit violent crimes should never be allowed to vote again. People do a lot of stupid things when they are young. I know many people who are completely different at age 35 than they were at age 20. I dare say there are many here at Free Republic who can look back with relief at some of the bullets they dodged when they were young and stupid. Once felons have completed their sentence and have maintained a clean record for a certain amount of years, they should be given a chance to participate again.
"Specter loves to collaboriate with the Democrats."
No reason. Attack on the person, not the issue.
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