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.
............. 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.........
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!
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.
Amazing. Republicans assume felons vote Democrat. And Democrats assume felons vote Democrat. And, in the absence of voter ID, you can guarantee they will be voted Democrat. I’d say that’s a lead pipe cinch.
Similarly, every election cycle Democrats go into court to get military votes thrown out on one pretext or other because they assume military votes lean Republican.
So, that’s what we see. They will go to court to get felons registered to vote. And they will go to court to keep military votes out.
If a person is incarcerated, is on probation, or on parole, then no, they shouldn't enjoy all the same rights as free people do. However, if you've paid your state-mandated penalty, and are no longer incarcerated, on probation, or on parole, then you should have all rights restored.
Yes, even the right to own a firearm.
If a person is too dangerous to society to own a firearm, then they are too dangerous to release back into society.
Apparently the NY Times thinks that if it were not for Klansmen driving urban residents to convenience stores or beaming ads for narcotics into the young angelic skulls full of mush there would be no holdups or murders and therefore no convictions.
Tacit admission that felons by and large vote Democrat.
So, not letting felons vote is racist. I suppose the statistic that there are more Blacks that are incarcerated than Whites makes their claim. But my response to that issue is always ‘do you think the Blacks didn’t do a crime that put them in jail?’. If those Blacks would stop committing crimes, they would have a vote. But that doesn’t go very far with SJWs. There is always a reason, usually implicating Whites, that causes Blacks to do crimes.