Posted on 08/14/2004 1:52:24 PM PDT by schaketo
They can vote to sing the blues.
Not according to an article in the WSJ (this week?). The turnout rate of ex-cons is lower than the public in general, and those who do vote are somewhere around 70 - 80% Democrat (as I recall, I did not save the article), with the rest mostly R.
Dang! Contradictory reports, with numbers even. Sources, please, gentlemen? (FReepmail if you like -- I collect stats.)
Not always. I have the word of someone who spent time in a military brig that most of the brig inmates are conservative.
Thanks Graybeard58, I would have thought that more states would have felons removed for good. And people calls us Californians liberal fools, what is wrong with New England? Felons in jail voting, I'd say they already got their due process and be done with it.
LOL! The Democrats want the felon vote today. Robbers, rapists and murderers are such fine upstanding citizens. To deprive them of the right to vote for Democrats is a crime against humanity. The Nine Circus Clowns are in agreement what the Democrats want, they ought to get - even if it rests on a pack of lies called statistics.
I'll try to find a reference. It was a hot topic locally, when the Dems wanted to get Bush out of the Whitehouse. I thought it was funny at the time, that's why I remember.
Most believed that they voted against the Democrat Party because the Correctional Officers Association supports Democrat candidates only.
How funny. But if the FR reports on California's corrections officers' union are correct, they're not far off the mark...
I don't know how the law works in the US regarding inmates voting.
But, IMO, if you choose to break the laws of the land, and lose your liberty when caught - you should also lose your franchise. Indeed, those who commit a felony and must serve 'community service' etc. in lieu of a prison term, should also lose their franchise until their debt to society is paid.
NO....
I was taught in Civics class in high school back in the early 70's that if you were convicted of a felony that you would no longer have the right to vote.
I believe it varies from state to state.
After you have served your sentence, you can petition the court to have your voting rights re-instated.
What do you think of Washington DC wanting to grant non-citizen residents the right to vote?
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