Posted on 12/11/2019 1:55:22 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear vowed during his inaugural address Tuesday to restore voting rights to more than 100,000 people convicted of felonies.
"My faith teaches me to treat others with dignity and respect. My faith also teaches forgiveness," Beshear, a Democrat, said during his speech from the steps of the Kentucky capital in Frankfort. "That's why on Thursday, I will sign an executive order restoring voting rights to over 100,000 men and women who have done wrong in the past but are doing right now."
"They deserve to participate in our great democracy," Beshear added. "By taking this step, by restoring these voting rights, we declare that everyone in Kentucky counts. We all matter."
Kentucky and Iowa have some of the most stringent restrictions on voting rights for those with felony records and impose lifetime bans on voting for convicted felons. Under the Kentucky Constitution, individuals can petition the governor to restore their voting rights.
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Why do Democrats automatically think felons will vote for them , LOL
“My faith also teaches me this is an easy way to pick up 100,000 swing votes.”
And the restoration of their second amendment rights?
Hello?
Anyone?
Bueller??
Do they get pre filled out ballots and a ride to their polling stations?
This is usurping the power of the legislature, and is an abuse of the pardon power conferred upon the Governor's office.
Unless evidence to indicate that the drafters of the Kentucky constitution expected the power to be used in this manner emerges, that clause cannot and should not be read in such a way as to convey such a meaning.
Pardon's must be done individually.
Same reason repubs thought catholic Mexicans would vote gop. Wishful thinking.
And executive order does not meet the intention of their Constitution.
Correct practice is :
“Under the Kentucky Constitution, individuals can petition the governor to restore their voting rights.”
“They deserve to participate in our great democracy,” Beshear added.
Another ignorant liberal democrat...
We have a Constitutional Representative Republic, you idiot...Not a “democracy”....
Wonder if the Progressive weenie will require that all restitution and fines are paid before the pardons?
Baby murderers have “faith”. Who knew?
Please don’t tell me he is a Southern Baptist!
This according to the KY Constitution:
Section 145 Persons entitled to vote.
Every citizen of the United States of the age of eighteen years who has resided in the state one year, and in the county six months, and the precinct in which he offers to
vote sixty days next preceding the election, shall be a voter in said precinct and not elsewhere but the following persons are excepted and shall not have the right to vote.
1. Persons convicted in any court of competent jurisdiction of treason, or felony, or bribery in an election, or of such high misdemeanor as the General Assembly may declare shall operate as an exclusion from the right of suffrage, but persons hereby excluded may be restored to their civil rights by executive pardon.
2. Persons who, at the time of the election, are in confinement under the judgment of a court for some penal offense.
3. Idiots and insane persons.
Text as Ratified on: November 8, 1955.
History: 1955 amendment was proposed by 1954 Ky. Acts ch. 2, sec. 1; original version ratified August 3, 1891, and revised September 28, 1891.
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Note: Item 3 above clearly prohibits democrats from voting. Only question remaining is whether the governor can issue a blanket pardon.
what about felons who’ve been deported? Shouldn’t they be allowed to vote?
And then there’s the millions of Democrats who are prevented from voting because they are dead, through no fault of their own?. Why can’t they continue to vote for the party they love from beyond the grave?
The continued destruction of America. WTF is wrong with Americans? Are they this stupid?
You mean they don’t where you live?
That would be like asking Nancy Pelosi about her "Catholic faith" when the conversation is about abortion...
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No, Just democraps.
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