Report: 6,000 Felons On Voter Registration Lists

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[ThomasMore]

State law bars prisoners serving sentences or convicted felons who are on parole from voting.

These votes should be disqualified. The RNC should go after this.

[from occupied ga]

I believe that people get the government they deserve.

Two things:

1. Unfortunately we get the government they deserve when the government is decided by a majority election, and
2. I never thought I'd agree with anything Marion B. ever said, but he's against supporting major league baseball in DC with taxpayer money. Good for him.

[YaYa123]

'"I had no idea we had that type of numbers," Davidson said"

This is an understandable lie if this ditz is a Democrat. If she's a Republican folks, we're in serious trouble. Illegal voter registrations are going on in every state, felons, college students, and nursing home residents are the key targets of Soros' hired 527 and Union registration workers.

[from occupied ga]

My father died in the mid '70s and has been voting straight Democrat ever since.

[ColdSteelTalon]

In many states...

I was only making the point that in many states felons are barred from voting permanently regardless of the ex-cons status. And even then rights are never completely restored.

[Stultis]

the cure is simple - have the police wait undercover for the felons to show up and then arrest them on the spot.

If they actually did this (which they couldn't 'cause it would be voter intimidation, don'tchasee?) there would doubtless be many interesting results. For example it might turn out that some persons turning up to vote in the name of a person weren't that person. Likewise it might be found that someone who had never shown up at the polls at all nevertheless had been striken off the rolls as having voted by the time the votes had been turned in to the counting center.

[TheBattman]

In today's technology-driven society, I find it difficult to believe that this all couldn't be handled with a simple file merge via computer.

[kpp_kpp]

http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/election/voters.html
http://college.hmco.com/history/readerscomp/rcah/html/ah_083500_suffrage.htm
http://www.usfca.edu/fac-staff/hancock/pol204/history.htm

There has to be some better way than what is happening now, w/o "disenfranchising" minorities.

For example, on the local level, why should everyone get to vote on property tax levies? Property owners should be the only ones allowed to vote on the issue.

[SheLion]

The dems are so pathetic! I guess we will be hearing about the disenfranchised in Colorado too!

We are going to lose this Election.  Just watch.  The world has gone nuts.  And anyone with Christian values will be left in the outfield when the game is over.  There are more people today that want abortion and want the gays to have their rights then ever before. 

And the DemocRATS said they will do ANYTHING to win this election.  So get ready.

[GAGOPSWEEPTOVICTORY]

The dems are so pathetic! I guess we will be hearing about the disenfranchised in Colorado too!

Yeah, we'll be hearing about the POOR felons that couldn't vote.

Somehow they'll turn this around to a racial issue. I've seen the pathetic attempts already.. One in four black men can't vote because they are felons..

We'll, I'll give you a hint (and this goes to all felons, regardless of race)-- DON'T COMMIT CRIMES AND LOSE YOUR RIGHT TO VOTE IN THE FIRST PLACE.

It's really a simple concept -- one that even a RAT can understand.

[BJClinton]

In all fairness she did catch the error and appears to be dealing with it. The problem are these registration drives that willingly register ineligible voters. Since SoS Davidson is a Pubbie we can count on the MSM screaming racism and disenfranchisement.

[Bellflower]

Obviously if 6,000 parolees and prisoners are registered there must "tons" of other false registries. This should be a red flag to go over all new voter registries' applications to vote with a "fine toothed comb" and quickly. This is where our battle lies.

[Josh in PA]

There's an state sponsored "Go Vote" advertisement being played on the radio's here for the past couple months.

The latest one, "If you are a first time voter, take ID with you to the voters booth. If you forget your ID, you can cast a provisional ballot."

I can envision the Dems casting about 400-500 thousand provisional ballots to win the state and when the GOP moves to throw them out, the Dems start crying that we are disenfranchising 1/2 million voters.

[Bellflower]

Illegal aliens, felons, the dead, and the senile are the Democrat core constituency. And Asa Hutchinson says we can't get rid of the illegals. Remember Asa Hutchinson is we lose.

Also those who "live" in anywhere from 2 to 10 locations and vote in every location. They also vote as absentee voters,

[meyer]

And the DemocRATS said they will do ANYTHING to win this election. So get ready.

I'm ready.

[blackdog]

There are some people in jail as convicted felons who are there because they had to choose a felony crime over a situation of greater wrong. It does happen in some cases. If you have limited resources your options are limited.

The rapidly explosive geometry of choice in a situation which may be very brief leaves maybe three considerations before becoming a victim of room temperature. Even serving jail time because your first choice of defending yourself in a split second is the right thing is a good choice. All choices have consequences. Better to serve five years for manslaughter than to be a loss to your family forever.

I use Bernie Goetz as an example.

[PosterQue]

How stupid can a secretary of state be? If you have 20,000 felony convictions per year, I'd imagine you'd have 20,000 felons ineligible to vote. Not exactly rocket science dearie. Not so simple. Only a handful of states permanently bar felons from voting, so while you're convicting X number of felons a year, Y number of felons are at the same time regaining their voting rights.

Plus you need to consider that one person may be convicted for multiple felonies.

[GAGOPSWEEPTOVICTORY]

I understand that, but 90% of the time, the person who gets locked up is guilty of the crime that he or she was charged of, and more likely than not a greater crime (and the crime is plead down to a lesser included defense). The Bernie Goetzes of the world are few and far between.

I have no sympathy for convicted felons and their right to vote. From a philosophical standpoint, we all have default rules, which we agree to obey. If you break the rules, one of the consequences is that you forfeit your right to vote. Tough luck. Don't commit the crime in the first place and you don't lose that right.

[eno_]

Agreed, but the solution is to have not so many frickin' felonies.

A felony is supposed to be a special crime, with special consequences.

Smoking near a public school might be a felony these days.

[MayflowerMadam]

"Illegal voting is the lifeblood of the Democrats. Kill it, and the Democrats die off."

I had a mini-confrontation with a chick outside of Walmart in Simi Valley on Saturday. She was registering voters, but refused to tell me what organization she represented. I told her I hoped that ALL of the forms she received were submitted and that some wouldn't conveniently disappear. She didn't respond. I checked with the head of the Republican group in Simi that afternoon and she said it wasn't through them and that it would be check in to.