Posted on 10/11/2004 7:17:13 AM PDT by esryle
DENVER -- Some 6,000 prisoners and felons on parole are on the state's voter registration rolls, The Denver Post reported Sunday.
State law bars prisoners serving sentences or convicted felons who are on parole from voting.
The Post reported that Secretary of State Donetta Davidson plans to convene an emergency meeting this week of Colorado's 64 county clerks to stop prisoners and parolees from voting on Nov. 2. Some prisoners and parolees voted in the August primary.
"I had no idea we had that type of numbers," Davidson said.
"You have to wonder if they're malicious or inept in the secretary of state's office. Every ineligible elector that votes cancels the vote of an eligible elector," said Al Kowicz, executive director of Accurate Mail Election Election Results, an election watchdog group based in Boulder.
The Post said 40 percent of the 6,006 felons on voting lists are on parole or in community-supervision programs that would permit them to visit polling stations. Records through September showed 536 felons registered this year. Some were signed up during registration drives that have added tens of thousands of potential voters to the registration rolls since March.
One problem is that the state corrections department does not send a list of felons to the secretary of state's office.
"We can only act on the information provided us. This particular issue is a matter for corrections to address," said Bill Compton, state elections director.
"We send data sets to agencies that request the information," said Alison Morgan, spokeswoman for corrections.
These votes should be disqualified. The RNC should go after this.
Two things:
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.
My father died in the mid '70s and has been voting straight Democrat ever since.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Also those who "live" in anywhere from 2 to 10 locations and vote in every location. They also vote as absentee voters,
I'm ready.
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.
Plus you need to consider that one person may be convicted for multiple felonies.
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.
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.
"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.
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