People who don’t register to vote don’t have a right to vote, accused of a crime or otherwise.
The sheriff is under no legal obligation to register inmates to vote. This was wilful, and Mr. Pollack is right to be enraged.
See my #26.
Note, btw, despite us agreeing on this issue, he may not have had a choice but to allow people in to try to register potential legal voters (that depends on state law). That, if course, doesn’t speak to whether Scott Israel contacted them beforehand, with his scumbag intent to try to have these particular utter scumbags alter the election results. We may never know this.
I am as outraged as anyone else who isn’t a victim of this shooting, directly or indirectly, about this situation. I merely was pointing out that without a murder conviction, ANY citizen over the age of 18 can vote if registered, no matter how much we dislike them or that fact. Without that simple protection of a scumbag’s right, the rights of normal citizens are meaningless. Rights are protected at the margins, almost always for scummy shitbag people doing scummy shitbag things. That is their minor and clearly unintentional contribution to society - setting up bright lines that cannot be crossed.