Posted on 01/08/2010 10:47:38 AM PST by Free ThinkerNY
You don't think 300,000 felons can determine results of an election?
Having brain-dead non-felons voting is a big enough societal handicap, as is the voting by non-citizens.
Do you want to live in a state where the laws are determined by criminals?
How many convictions do you think should make criminals permanently ineligible to vote?
Two?
Five?
Ten?
Twenty-five?
There are literally millions of convicted felons in the country. If the Dems can restore their voting rights and give voting rights to illegals as well as the ones they will bring in under the umbrella of shamnesty, that is going to be very difficult for Repubs or Conservatives to overcome. You could very well see Dems in office for perpetuity.
I firmly believe that’s their play.
Good point. Repeat law-breakers should be limited in their affecting the making of law or of electing those that do. I don’t see a problem with that.
The principle that I was standing on is that the liberties that are taken away would be restored after time is served. But exceptions could and certainly should be made under law.
Attention felons: if you don’t want to lose your right to vote, don’t do the crime. Maybe it will be a deterrent.</s>
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