Posted on 08/14/2004 1:52:24 PM PDT by schaketo
The headline: Must inmates be allowed to vote?
Only if liberal judges make it so.
And I would remind the reporter there is a difference between must and should.
Has Bush appointed anyone to the 9th in his term? The loon/rational quotient on that court has to be reduced.
No. Voting is a privilege. If these guys want to throw away the historical struggle of black people by going to jail, let them. I've been reading 'Judging Thomas' and to know what black people went through to even get to vote should make people stay out of jail and be upright citizens. Besides not only black people go to jail. How come they aren't worried about white males getting 'disenfranchised'?
They are thinking long term. White males are scheduled to be banned and deported by 2020.
(/half joking)
Logic? Huh? What the.......?
Well, the problem with their decision could be remedied by massive and speedy application of capital punishment to empty the prisons. But then one would be still left with the "cemetery vote" problem, which, in all fairness, is not of Ninth Circuit's making.
Logic and the Ninth Circuit aren't generally words I'd use in the same sentence.
But then again, as another person said recently:
The truth is to Democrats what kryptonite is to Superman. They can't exist in the same room.
Problem is for a lot of people, jail is better than the streets. My father was 'disenfranchised' by going to prison when he a teenager, so there's an example of how someone white and conservative was stripped of the right to vote.
As a matter of fact 39 states allow felons to vote, 4 of which allow incarcerated felons to vote.
huh? which states are those? You'd think CA would be one of them.
They keep having to stoop lower and lower in order to justify their activism!
DKK
Currently, 46 states prohibit prisoners serving a felony sentence from voting. (The four states that permit inmates to vote are Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont.) In addition, 32 states deny the vote to persons on probation and/or parole, and in 14 states a felony conviction *can* result in disenfranchisement for life. Voting in federal elections is determined by the voting laws in place in one's state of residence.
(*But not neccessarily does*)
I'm glad that you said "almost" I've never voted for a democrat in my life. I was convicted a little more than two years ago of carrying a gun. I didn't brandish it or threaten anybody with it. I simply had it.
In Illinois that's a felony. Fortunately for me Illinois still lets me vote.
If you're in jail, you lose privileges. One of those should be voting privileges.
There is a reason for this. With thousands of people of voting age in jails, those numbers could swing close elections, and having politicians pander to prisoner special interests for their votes threatens the integrity of the public offices.
It prevents the formation of a prisoner voting bloc, and you know that would happen.
And the U.S. would be turned into one big state of New Jersey!
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