You don't think 300,000 felons can determine results of an election?
Having brain-dead non-felons voting is a big enough societal handicap, as is the voting by non-citizens.
Do you want to live in a state where the laws are determined by criminals?
How many convictions do you think should make criminals permanently ineligible to vote?
Two?
Five?
Ten?
Twenty-five?
Good point. Repeat law-breakers should be limited in their affecting the making of law or of electing those that do. I don’t see a problem with that.
The principle that I was standing on is that the liberties that are taken away would be restored after time is served. But exceptions could and certainly should be made under law.