Posted on 06/03/2024 9:38:14 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) signed a bill Friday setting up a voting program for inmates held in county jails, a first-of-its-kind effort expanding the ability to vote to those in local custody.
The law requires counties to designate an employee to coordinate voting access for those in custody, including at least one day of in-person voting. People convicted of felonies are not eligible to vote in Colorado, though those who were convicted of a misdemeanor or are awaiting trial are eligible.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
On the other hand it could be useful for us when the Stasi starts mass arresting us.
Amazed it took this long. If I was a criminal I’d vote a straight Democrat ticket.
If the GOP is smart, and we all know they are dumber than dirt, they remind the prisoners they are the result of demoKKKrat policies which kept them down
Criminals. Foreigners. Dead People. God forbid you oppose any of these voting blocs, or you oppose ‘democracy’...
Hopefully the law also requires checking the person meets al other legal requirements to vote. Like being an actual citizen...
If the prisoners are eligible to vote (misdemeanor or awaiting trial) then they should be allowed to vote
Don't be naïve. It won't apply to conservatives.
(Darth Vader voice) The sarcasm is strong with this one...
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (Fudgepacker, from way backer)
Bar scene:
Fudgepacker: “May I push your stool in for you?”
"Colorado governor approves nation’s first statewide voting program for prisoners"
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
This official state action wrongly weakens the constitutionally enumerated voting power of voters in good standing, a violation of Section 1 of 14th Amendment imo.
Excerpted from 14th Amendment (14A):
"Section 1: All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States [emphasis added]; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
"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 [emphases added] 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." [Apportionment of Representatives]
"Section 5: The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article."
If this were a better world, the feds would be publicly reminding all states before an election that the feds will be darkening the doorway of any state to investigate allegations of possible violations of constitutional voting integrity protections, allowing prisoners to vote in this example.
In the meanwhile, since the current corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification Congress is not doing its job to protect voter rights, voters in good standing must support hopeful Trump 47 with a new patriot Congress in November that will actually do its duty to protect such rights.
If CO is a blue state...
...then why does Deep State have to steal its elections? 🤔
TREASON against the CITIZENS of the UNITED STATES
HANG him
More Democrat voters!! This is disgusting for the average citizen. The Democrats win votes through legislation and the courts not from actual citizens. Soon they’ll be allowing foreigners to vote - oh wait!!
This year, at least, the prison vote might go for Trump.
when the law abiding American people of this country will not vote for these pukes they seek out the sh## in society and protect and coddle them along with thier ways of stealing the vote to remain in power
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