Posted on 11/04/2018 9:24:26 PM PST by Blue House Sue
When meggen massey learned that she would be able to vote in the 2016 presidential election, she was ecstatic.
She had always thought of herself as a voter, but when she arrived in jail in Los Angeles County with an arson charge, some of her fellow detainees told her that she had lost that right. I was devastated, Massey remembered. I was like, Oh my God, Im never going to be able to vote again.
But that turned out to be wrong. With the help of Susan Burton, the founder of the womens-reentry program A New Way of Life Reentry Project, and a group of voter-registration volunteers, Massey was able to request and cast a vote by mail ballot.
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
Just the sort of responsible, upstanding citizens this Republic needs....
Being that they have not been convicted of a felony, it is not a question of their being responsible, but rather, do they have the residency that is required to register to vote?
Is their residency the county jail, or where they lived prior to going the the county jail?
Yeah, facing a dime on an arson charge, loss of voting rights would be my first concern too.
My thought exactly.
Probably not going to go over well here. The ability today to convict someone of something, anything, or to force them to a plea deal with all the power of government, has become to strong. Therefore, abuse of that power can disinfranchise to many people especially if government is abused like it was under Obama. No, like Lincoln and Grant we must learn to forgive our fellow Americans and allow them to be pursue happiness and return their rights. Clearly, I am not discussing those individuals whom are dangerous. I am discussing those who have fulfilled their complete sentences, and have demonstrated they can return to society. We MUST provide a way back for their rights, a way they can be productive in society, or we will suffer another generation of criminals, and a government that will abuse the system to silence everyone. This is the civil rights issue of the day, it is a constant threat to the Republic that I thought impossible before Obama. We must provide a way to redemption.
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