The other three are on the ballot!
Posted on 05/07/2015 5:40:08 AM PDT by TurboZamboni
There is a good reason liberal lawmakers and governors across the country are eager to pass laws allowing felons to vote. A recent study conducted by the Academy of Political and Social Sciences indicates that seven out of 10 convicts register as Democrats.The DFL-controlled Senate in Minnesota is leading the way with its recent passage of a bill allowing felons to vote while still on parole or probation.
Proponents of changing the law are focused almost entirely on what they view as good for the felon rather than being concerned with the rights of law-abiding citizens. Proponents claim that allowing newly released criminals to vote would keep them on the straight and narrow. If voting is such a strong motivator for felons, then the current system that rewards them after they have shown the ability to abide by the law is the proper policy. Felons are proud of having earned back their right to vote. Proponents are trying to sell this idea to the citizens of Minnesota under the guise of being simply a “second chance” for felons. But felons already get a second chance in Minnesota when their right to vote is restored after they complete their sentences — unlike in Florida, Iowa, Kentucky and Virginia, where they are prohibited from voting for life.
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The other three are on the ballot!
It should be “complete the original term of their sentence”. No good time, or early release time counted.
Punish, or don't.
Don't give a life sentence without having the option of a dirt nap.
/johnny
“There is a good reason liberal lawmakers and governors across the country are eager to pass laws allowing felons to vote.”
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Should read ....
There is a good reason liberal lawmakers and governors (AND RAND PAUL) across the country are eager to pass laws allowing felons to vote.
Rand is so dense.
So many say that felons should be able to vote after serving their sentence.
Part of their sentence is losing their right to vote. What part of that can they not comprehend?
Felons shouldn’t vote at all.
Quite. If they want to vote, we’ll add 5 years to every sentence across the board and then we’ll consider it.
What part of a life sentence for a non-violent offender do you not get?
I am working to change that.
If a felon needs a life sentence, he needs a death penalty.
/johnny
I don’t think Rand or his old dad are “dense.” They have convinced hundreds of thousands of supporters to give them millions of dollars for doing nothing but making speeches. Sweet.
The left is always looking for ways to expand the “rights” of anyone who might bring them votes, no matter how little a contributor to society they may be, while steadily curtailing the freedom of the rest of us.
Or, face it that it's a life sentence and give them a dirt nap.
One or the other. Not the BS we have today.
/johnny
Imagine Hillary Clinton visiting San Quentin ...on a Campaign Tour... with Huma!!
“I am not a Crook....WOOPS sorry didnt mean to offend anyone...:
I’d say if the ‘dead’ were allowed voting in elections, then felons should be able to, at least they are ‘alive’....
If someone commits a felony, there should be severe consequences.
If someone doesn’t like losing their right to vote, they shouldn’t commit a felony.
:-)
"Paying one's debt to society" is a phrase used to describe sitting in jail doing nothing. It's hard to see how it pays any debt. In fact, it's more like the opposite, since it costs society quite a bit to keep a felon incarcerated.
That is a life sentence. And it needs to be reflected appropriately.
So, commit a felony that requires a life sentence, add the death penalty to it, because under your scheme, the punishment is NEVER over.
We call that a life sentence.
/johnny
They need dirt naps. In a perfect world, while the crime is being committed.
/johnny
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