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| My Felon Americans: Why Hillary and JFnK Want To Let Criminals Vote |
| 2005-03-07 |
| EFL - RTWT - Clarifies the previous posts of which states allow felons to vote The Constitution grants states the authority to determine "the Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections," but Hillary Clinton and John Kerry are pushing a Count Every Vote Act that would, among other things, force states to allow voters to register at the polls and declaring Election Day a federal holiday. And then they want to force every state to let felons vote--even though the 14th Amendment specifically permits states to disfranchise citizens convicted of "participation in rebellion, or other crime." Forty-eight states deny the vote to at least some felons; only Vermont and Maine let jailbirds vote. Thirty-three states withhold the right to vote from those on parole. Eight deny felons the vote for life, unless they petition to have their rights restored, and the Clinton-Kerry proposal would force them to enfranchise felons (or "ex-felons," as Mrs. Clinton misleadingly calls them) once they've completed parole. Mrs. Clinton says she is pushing her bill because she is opposed to "disenfranchisement of legitimate American voters." But it's hard not to suspect partisan motives. In a 2003 study, sociologists Chistopher Uggen and Jeff Manza found that roughly 4.2 million had been disfranchised nationwide, a third of whom had completed their prison time or parole. Taking into account the lower voter turnout of felons, they concluded that about one-third of them would vote in presidential races, and that would have overwhelmingly supported Democratic candidates. Participation by felons, Messrs. Uggen and Manza estimated, also would have allowed Democrats to win a series of key U.S. Senate elections, thus allowing the party to control the Senate continuously from 1986 until at least this January. The DNC - Welcome Home Felons! |
| Posted by:Frank G |
| #2 Dnc...sinking further and further into irrelevance |
| Posted by: Pheretle Cravigum4997 2005-03-07 7:30:14 PM |
| #1 It worked so well in Washington state where illegal Felons, the Dead, and imaginary (democratic) friends voted and were counted. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2005-03-07 7:27:20 PM |