Judge says ex-cons under supervision have the right to vote (Alameda County CA)

Los Angeles Times ^ | May 7, 2014 3:09 pm | Paige St. John

[Olog-hai]

An Alameda County judge has ruled that Secretary of State Debra Bowen erred when she told California election officials to forbid some 42,000 former prisoners and other felons from registering to vote.

Superior Court Judge Evelio Grillo’s decision Wednesday likely comes too late to permit former state inmates and others put under community supervision because of the state’s prison overcrowding to register in time to vote in the state’s primary elections. […]

The case centers on Gov. Jerry Brown’s decision in 2011 to make room in the state’s crowded prisons by creating new classes of offenders—low-level felons who serve their sentences in county jail instead of state prison and felons released from prison who are supervised by county probation departments instead of state parole agents. …

[GeronL]

Judges who make law should be removed from the bench

[FlingWingFlyer]

Hey Judgy! Who gets to “supervise” their votes? The DemocRATS?

[Conscience of a Conservative]

How did the judge here “make law”?

[Graewoulf]

Obama’s “Get out the vote” Campaign has begun were it should end: IN PRISON!

[C210N]

What’s the “supervision” part? Judge not convinced the felons will vote ‘Rat?

[DocJhn]

Is it not a felony to circumvent law Judge?

[Veggie Todd]

Judge says ex-cons under supervision have the right to vote

No, they don't.

[alpo]

The US Constitution is pretty clear on voting and felons.
Not much wiggle-room, even for a worm like Brown.

[Conscience of a Conservative]

“The US Constitution is pretty clear on voting and felons.”

Yes, the Constitution is clear that felons MAY be prohibited from voting. The Constitution does not, in any way, REQUIRE that felons be prohibited from voting - states may choose whether or not (and to what extent) to restrict felons from voting.