Posted on 11/29/2017 10:12:27 AM PST by Enlightened1
Thousands of felons across Alabama have registered to vote in recent weeks, according to Pastor Kenneth Glasgow, who is heading up a statewide effort to get felons to the voting booth.
Glasgow's goal is to get as many felons as possible signed up to vote before the end of the day Monday, the deadline to be able to cast a ballot in Alabama's Dec. 12 U.S. Senate special election.
"In the last month, I think we registered at least five- to ten-thousand people all over the state," Glasgow, president of Dothan's The Ordinary People Society (TOPS) advocacy group, said Monday. "I've got people all over the state registering people with my TOPS branches in Tuscaloosa, Birmingham, Montgomery, Enterprise, Dothan, Abbeville, Geneva, Gordon, Bessemer, we have a lot."
For generations, most Alabamians convicted of a felony were barred from ever voting in the state again, but the Definition of Moral Turpitude Act, a new law passed by the state Legislature and signed by Gov. Kay Ivey in May, cleared the way for thousands of felons to restore their voting rights.
The law lists several dozen felony convictions that are considered crimes "of moral turpitude," which means that anyone convicted of one of them loses the right to vote; other felons are now eligible to restore that right. Previously, the list of crimes that some registrars considered to be "of moral turpitude" was not clearly defined, and many felons simply believed they could never regain the franchise.
AL.com tagged along with Glasgow earlier this year as he helped register a felon at Dothan City Jail to vote.
Spencer Trawick lost the franchise in 2015 when he was convicted of third-degree burglary, a felony. But Glasgow informed Trawick in June - while he was still incarcerated at the Dothan jail
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Democrat operatives in Alabama are REGISTERING THOUSANDS OF FELONS all across the state in an effort to swing the US Senate election to Doug Jones
uh-oh...
Gotta be getting paid.
AFAIK, it is still up to the states, per the Constitution, to allow felons or ex-convicts to vote. It that the case in AL?
‘For generations, most Alabamians convicted of a felony were barred from ever voting in the state again, but the Definition of Moral Turpitude Act, a new law passed by the state Legislature and signed by Gov. Kay Ivey in May, cleared the way for thousands of felons to restore their voting rights.’
This does not be an action by a federal court forced upon Alabama but as sit should be, an action of the state’s legislature and governor.
You should have thought of that before you committed the crime.
Actions have consequences.
Do you believe that a state has a right to restore voting rights to felons?
If they put it to a statewide vote, I suppose.
Can they also restore their gun rights?
Won’t matter, Moore is going to win easily.
No need for a statewide vote if a constitutional amendments is not required.
This was an action by the state legislature and well within their powers.
This is one of the tools in the Democrat bag of dirty tricks.
Where it can be done it will be done between now and the ‘18 and ‘20 elections. If it’s illegal, that won’t stop them either. Most of them won’t actually vote, but enough of them will in close and key races to get the Democrat over the finish line first.
Gov. McAwful used this strategy in Va to pad Northam’s win.
Soros funded no doubt.
How in the hell could such a law be passed in Alabama, where Republicans control the state house as well as both houses of the legislature?
‘This is one of the tools in the Democrat bag of dirty tricks.’
And carried out by a GOP legislature and governor.
Any of those felons have sex offenses?
And yet even non violent criminals are barred from owning firearms.
Please, Alabama people, get everyone you know to vote for Judge Moore. Please, be sure to vote! We are counting on you.
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