The Felon Vote

www.colony14.net campaign ad disclosing that the Democratsd are working hard to register convicted felons in time for the November elections

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• felons
• convicted
• vote

[shit4brains1974]

I agree. If I was in jail I wouldn't expect a ballot. The only thing that makes me mad is that I can never vote again. It's like once a criminal always a criminal. They're pretty much telling us that we're no longer civilized and we don't matter. I understand it with some felonies like murder,rapist,arsonist,terrori­st,violent felons but alot of felons should be forgiven. Alot of felons wouldn't be felons if we could afford a good lawyer instead of accepting a plea bargain with a public defender.

[colony14]

Good point. The average person (including me) knows little about how things work in the courts. Money keeps some people out of jail, and lack of money keeps some people in.

[shit4brains1974]

I was convicted of fleeing and eluding a leo a third degree felony. My friend was convicted of fraud or something for working a little while he was collecting unemployment. Neither of us can vote. My cousin has a rap sheet almost three pages long from drug posession to assault even a breaking and entering but they're all misdemeanors and he can vote. It's kinda messed up the way you can be a better person than someone else but in the eyes of society you're much worse.

[colony14]

I could go along with allowing people the right to vote after they've served their time and are back in society. But I do not like the idea of prison guards passing out absentee ballots to convicts in their cells. Actions should have consequences. But I don't think that asking for a photo I.D. before you can vote is racist or homophobic or ageist or sexist or whatever some want to call it. No I.D. means vote fraud, pure and simple.

[world237]

.ok there are all kinds of felons. You cant get a felony if you steal a car or power tools. witch anit that bad.

[colony14]

I should like to think that jaywalking is a misdemeanor and not a felon, but I understand your point. I'll go along with letting felons vote if all states would require photo I.D. for voting!

[Pbirv]

Pedos are only a small percentage of felons. We've got a whole range of felonies that really shouldn't be- things like bouncing a check, jaywalking, starting a bonfire.... In the last 40 years we've criminalized a lot of things that were only petty offenses if not perfectly legal only a generation or two ago.

[colony14]

I can go along with the vote with your conditions - after serving time and satisfying all parole requirements. I'm not sure I'd agree, however, that regaining the right to vote makes a former convict less likely to again break the law. It wasn't voting issues that got them into jail, after all. "Oh, great, I can vote again. Now I will stop molesting children!"

[Pbirv]

I can see not letting felons vote while they're in prison, but once they finish their sentences, including parole, probabtion, they should be allowed to vote. After all they're just as affected by the actions of our elected reps as anyone else. If we're not gonna let them reintegrate into society once they get out of prison, then why let them out at all? Ex-cons who are allowed to vote are less likely to reoffend.

[colony14]

Actually, these are photos of people who will be in Obama's cabinet... that way he can be the guy in the room with the most morals and least convictions.

But Obama's money-man, Tony "the fixer" Rezko, is in jail and starting to "sing" to prosecutor Peter Fitzgerald, so you never know! The prospect of a long prison term can suddenly make one remember things!