Posted on 01/03/2018 8:38:42 AM PST by pabianice
Today, Florida disenfranchises almost 1.5 million of its citizens, more than 11 states’ populations and roughly a quarter of the more than six million Americans who are unable to vote because of a criminal record.
Felon disenfranchisement is a destructive, pointless policy that hurts not only individuals barred from the ballot box, but American democracy at large. Its post-Civil War versions are explicitly racist, and its modern-day rationales are thin to nonexistent. It can make all the difference in places like Florida, which didn’t stop being competitive in 2000; the state remains a major presidential battleground, and victories for both parties in state and local elections are often narrow.
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How dare they! These are Democrat votes we’re talking about! Democrats represent criminals very well!
Anything to drag a Democrat across the finish line
Isn’t it Constitutional?? So inhumane to PUNISH evil-doers. Only in the liberal mind.
NY Times editors wants CONVICTED FELONS, AKA criminals to vote............
New York Times stands with illegals, NFLers who kneel showing hatred for the country, and now felons who can easily get their voting rights back in Florida with a VERY SMALL effort.
Seems the New York Times defines themselves by the types they champion...
If people want to return a felon’s right to vote, then people should also want to return a felon’s right to bear arms.
In Florida, all they have to do is ask for restoration of rights and they usually are granted...............
............. a lot of felons in Florida. Yoi.
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The lib editorial writers down here in God’s Waiting Room always drag up the sad story of someone convicted of a felony in his youth, who has turned his life around and now builds homes for Habitat for Humanity or who serves meals to the homeless and is now a model citizen. There is a process to regain citizenship rights for such individuals, but the writers always claim it’s too slow, cumbersome.
No mention is made of the murderers, rapists and career criminals who just spent 25 years in the slammer.
I have had the opportunity to interact with enough of these felons, at work and as renters, to know that I don’t want them voting. The noted personality characteristic is an extraordinary self-regard. If you could characterize it in one sentence that sentence might read, “How dare ‘rich’ people have something I don’t.” Rich is anybody who has something they don’t. (Yes, it’s a broad brush. But the reason there are stereotypes is enough people are of the type that they are widely recognizable by almost anybody who hasn’t lived in a cave.)
21 million population. Hmmm.........
You have to wonder why one right is essential to return to the guy, but not the right to bear arms? Seems like they’d all measure out to the same value.
I guess the commies at the Slimes don’t see the Puerto Rican hurricane invasion as going to be enough to get their America-hating comrades “elected” in Florida. Now they’re counting on murderers and other felons to elect “democrats”. How low can you go?
Felons vote
Dead people vote
Illegal aliens vote
Next they will lower the voting age to two!
Notice I didn’t include women in the list!
Those are the same people who claim that blacks are too stupid and/or lazy to get photo ID to vote.
Maybe we need to lock them up longer rather than have them experience additional penalties after getting out.
If this group was likely to vote R, the NYT would be telling us how great it is that we can reduce the profit of “for-profit prison corporations” by allowing the felons to pay for their crimes in ways other than long sentences, including not being able to vote.
If felons overwhelmingly voted Republican the NYT would be screaming that they have forfeited their right to vote by their nefarious deeds.
14% of the population of Florida are felons..... and just think how many young folks haven’t had their chance yet.
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