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TechBear_Seattle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 11:20 AM Original message |
Why are felons barred from voting? |
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I Have A Dream (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 11:21 AM Response to Original message |
1. I've wondered this also. |
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ck4829 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 11:21 AM Response to Original message |
2. It's required that we have some irony in our government |
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melm00se (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 11:23 AM Response to Original message |
3. 14th Amendment |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 11:36 AM Response to Reply #3 |
7. Interestingly, however, the apportionment is not (afaik) affected. |
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Eric J in MN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 11:23 AM Response to Original message |
4. In Vermont, even prisoners can vote. |
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sinkingfeeling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 11:25 AM Response to Original message |
5. Only in some states. Many, like mine, reinstate their right to vote after they have served their |
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PVnRT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 11:47 AM Response to Reply #5 |
11. Wow - my home state isn't completely bass-ackward |
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tannybogus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 11:55 AM Response to Reply #5 |
12. I'm amazed |
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varkam (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 01:48 PM Response to Reply #5 |
20. In KY... |
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raccoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 11:34 AM Response to Original message |
6. Maybe to keep members of the underclass from voting for |
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librechik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 01:51 PM Response to Reply #6 |
21. Bingo--it's a plank in the Republican platform |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 11:36 AM Response to Original message |
8. Because of the disproportionate number of minority and poor felons. |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 11:38 AM Response to Original message |
9. Perhaps to avoid issues of prison reform from gaining traction? |
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Changenow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 11:41 AM Response to Original message |
10. It becomes clear when you |
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Real_Talk (87 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 11:56 AM Response to Original message |
13. Too easy to be a felon these days. |
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Xithras (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 12:01 PM Response to Original message |
14. Same issue as the argument against college students voting. |
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Ian_rd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 12:15 PM Response to Original message |
15. It's a Jim Crow law that remains |
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raincity_calling (143 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 12:18 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. Yep, vote suppression |
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Ian_rd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 12:27 PM Response to Reply #16 |
18. Wow, that's a dynamite quote. |
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HEyHEY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 12:21 PM Response to Original message |
17. In Canada you can vote IN prison |
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TechBear_Seattle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 02:25 PM Response to Reply #17 |
23. Why should felons in prison be barred from voting? n/t |
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LostInAnomie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 12:45 PM Response to Original message |
19. It's a means to disenfranchise that is way to convenient to ever repeal. |
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bdf (430 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 01:54 PM Response to Original message |
22. Racism and desire for political power. |
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lame54 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 02:31 PM Response to Reply #22 |
25. Apartheid |
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lame54 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-22-08 02:31 PM Response to Original message |
24. They can't vote but they can apparently hold office |
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