I don’t know if the VRA is the correct tool, but people who’ve “paid their dues to society” have paid them. If they’re off parole, LET THEM VOTE and allow them to rejoin society as full participants.
Unless, of course, we prefer to create a permanant under-class of (nominal) citizens.
Sure as soon as you eliminate plea bargins and early release.
One might consider that part of their "dues to society" include losing the right to vote.
One shouldn't do the crime if they can't do the time.
They already have. Second Amendment rights.
If the "government" i.e. the federal overlords claim they can cherry-pick who gets Second Amendment rights they will progress to the rest of YOUR rights, for whatever manufactured "crime" they deem you have committed. AND they will make it ex-post facto.
How does it go again? “No bill of attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed…” Yea, right. Tell it to all the guys that have been screwed by “domestic violence laws” over an argument with some worthless wife.
Right now they are playing around with your First Amendment Rights like they are pool toys.