Rep. Ako Abdul Samad, a Black lawmaker who worked for two years with Reynolds on the issue, said it’s just one step in the broader fight against racial injustice.
“You need to help us show that black lives matter and if black lives did matter this wouldn’t have been such a hoorah today. This would have been something that was already automatic,” he said.
There are people in Canada, Europe and All over the world that would like to vote in USA elections. Of course they have never been to the USA or would even care to visit but I’m sure that they would all like to vote in USA elections. I’m sure that Nazi Pelousi would love to have them vote with absentee ballots. /sarc.
Why even vote for the GOP at this point? They keep enacting the Democrats agenda for them and NOBODY is asking them. They’re all traitors.
They need to do the same thing regardng gun rights. Once you do your time, you’ve paid your debt.
So only black ex-cons can vote?
I’m not fine with this. Part of the punishment for having been convicted of a felony is the permanent loss of certain rights including the right to vote. I see no reason to further reduce the already low amount of punishment for felony crimes.
If she made a campaign promise and fulfilled it, then the people in her state should be satisfied.
What's the problem?
Obviously so they can vote democrat.
Considering the vastly increased numbers of offenses that have been inflated to felony status (with enthusiastic RINO support), I have zero problem with this. It’s not a racial issue. We’re something like 96% white in this state. People of all colors and both parties have been asking to have this done here for years. If they’re fit to be released, they’re free citizens again. If they aren’t, they stay locked up. Simple.
In addition some ninety percent of felony crimes should be eliminated. There really should be so few felony level crimes that everyone should be able to memorize and recite them.
Restoring voting rights doesn’t go far enough, the entire racist legal-judicial-penal system should be disassembled and replaced by a process that detains suspected law breakers so that their identity may be verified for future counseling sessions, in the case of persons of color, or confinement and punishment for white villains.
For things like rape and murder, there can be no Restitution made that I can envision.
Martha Stuart is a "felon"... Keep that in mind before discounting the idea of restitution/restoration.