Posted on 02/11/2014 11:41:17 AM PST by servo1969
I wonder who he thinks they will vote for? Let me think about that a while, ahem, tough call.
Eric Holder wants millions of convicted felons to vote, urging states to change existing laws.
Holder Urges States to Repeal Bans on Felons’ Voting:
Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. on Tuesday urged states to repeal laws that prohibit felons from voting, a move that would restore the right to vote to millions of people.The call was mostly symbolic — Mr. Holder has no authority to enact these changes himself — but it marked the attorney general’s latest effort to eliminate laws that he says disproportionately keep minorities from the polls. “It is unwise, it is unjust, and it is not in keeping with our democratic values,” Mr. Holder said at civil rights conference at Georgetown University. These laws deserve to be not only reconsidered, but repealed.”
African-Americans represent more than a third of the estimated 5.8 million people who are prohibited from voting, according to the Sentencing Project, a research group that favors more liberal sentencing policies. And in Florida, Kentucky, and Virginia, more than one in five African-Americans has lost the right to vote.
There may be a more severe impact on minority communities, but that’s a function of the convictions, not the voting laws.
Perhaps there should be a waiting period, or lifetime exclusions only for certain levels of criminal convictions.
Regardless, I think it’s probably going nowhere.
Ah, the ol’ “disparate impact means racism” ploy.
Restore their 2nd Amendment rights too.
No one should be.
It infringes our second Amendment right, and it’s also racist.
Sadly, Jeb Bush has advocated letting felons vote.
True all Holder is is a Communist Party washing machine— remember the good old days? A”useful idiot’ a “black agitator” a Community organizer. You do know hat felons are seen not as felons but undocumented Democrats.... people who can be Used’ to restore power to the Democratic Party plantation —and in this holder is just being the House nigga, delivering what his massa has requested.
Felons deemed unfit for society should be executed or exiled.
Yes, that’s why it’s 95% and not 100%.
There are always a few.
He’s setting the stage so that he can vote when he’s in prison.
This says everything about democrat voter. They are low value voters.
” - - - Sadly, Jeb Bush has advocated letting felons vote. - - - “
If that is true, then Jebber is truly the ideal RINO.
Karl Rove must be so proud.
Jeb also made some awful appointments, including to the bench.
It’s become sickeningly clear to me how deep the Bushes are in bed with the Clintons and by extension, soros.
I recall reading in David Horowitz book that felons voting was a dream of soros’ and of course hillary. You already know about the decades old plan to take over the S.O.S. position to oversee the voting.
Just disgusting how this has all come to be such a huge pile of crap. Who the heck are these people??!
The powers that be can turn anyone they want into a felon at any time...for any deserved or undeserved reason...
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