Having a felony around your neck for the rest of your life affects employability. If you’re “reformed enough” to be a participant in the Republics machinery of operation you’re reformed enough to not have impairments at all.
There are a lot of crimes that result in felonies that shouldn’t result in permanent BOR disenfranchisement IMO.
I personally know a Vietnam vet who got one for a roach that wasn’t even his in a friends car in 1969 in Texas. You really think someone in that circumstance should never be allowed to vote or own a firearm ever again?
My comment was about the restoration of voting rights and how they could affect employability. Being a felon is being a felon whether or not one’s voting right has been restored. The only thing that erases that, as far as I know, is a pardon. And yes, that felony conviction will always be a problem with respect to employability.