We’re letting thousands of “convicted felons” out of prison every day and allowing them to vote. You got a problem with convicted felons, Chrissy? You need to get “woke”.
Great point!
In fact, consider that Section 2 of the 14th Amendment (14A), a penalty for states that cheat the ballot box, emphasizes that voting rights protections don't apply to felons.
Excerpted from 14A:
"Section 2: Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State." [Section 2: Apportionment of Representatives]
"Section 5: The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article."
But more importantly, consider that the "in any way abridged" wording of Section 2, the words basically a "hair trigger" for violating that section, supports the idea that desperate Democratic swing states that allow criminals to vote are wrongly weakening the votes of qualified citizen voters by doing so.
In other words, states that allow criminals to vote are violating Section 2 imo.
In fact, if this were a better world, the federal government would be publicly warning all the states before Election Day that they don't want the feds to darken their doorway concerning allegations of Section-2 related vote-counting fraud.
Sadly, in stark contrast to enforcing Section 2, J6 lawmakers who voted to accept Biden's electoral votes despite allegations of voting problems, obstructed due process of Section 2 by doing so imo.
J6 lawmakers also wrongly ignored ongoing problems with state compliance with 12th Amendment electoral vote procedures imo.
Excerpted from 12A:
"The Electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice-President, and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President, and of all persons voted for as Vice- President, and of the number of votes for each, which lists they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate [emphasis added], ..."
In fact, Congress's "look the other way" policy concerning alleged voting problems and everything else is one more incentive for Democratic and Republican Trump supports to effectively "impeach and remove" ALL incumbents up for reelection in state and federal governments (except for Gaetz, MTG, and Jordan), by primarying them in 2024.
After all, lawmakers and executives continue to show that they do not have the patriotism and leadership skills necessary to find legislative support for effective remedies for unconstitutional government policies.
In fact, consider that since one of the very few powers that the states have expressly constitutionally given to the big, bad federal government to dictate peacetime domestic policy is to run the Mail Service (most federal domestic policy actually based on stolen state powers imo), the worst problem that the country would otherwise be looking at with a new Congress of freshman lawmakers is arguably a delay with mail delivery.
"Article I, Section 8, Clause 7: To establish Post Offices and post Roads;"
Trump can endorse candidates that Constitution-savvy patriots recommend as long as candidates are not incumbents, candidates also promising to repeal the 16th (direct taxes) and 17th (popular voting for federal senators) Amendments after they win office.
The definition of insanity is reelecting your beloved career state and federal lawmakers and executives over and over again, expecting those same politicians to find remedies for unconstitutional government policies every time.