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Tilted Cat Head
Administrator
Location: Manhattan, NY
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Originally Posted by guccilvr
I hope you never have kids  To sit here and say that trust can never be gained back 100% is ridiculous. There are people who will never be rehabilitated, but there are also quite a few who were just in the wrong place at the wrong time.. now they have a felony record. How about the ones who are *GASP* wrongfully convicted?
I've never understood why a felon can't vote. In NC, I believe your right to vote is only revoked as long as you are parole/probation, after that it is reinstated. That makes sense. You did your time, you proved you went another 3, 5, 10, however many years without doing anything else.. you should be allowed a say in the country's most basic right. It's not like voting can hurt anyone. The law about felons not being able to carry firearms makes sense.. but seriously.. a ballot won't do much damage.. unless you live in Florida.
I'm also trying to figure out how a felon can be taxed if they can't vote.. taxation without representation?? |
I'd say even with some parents trust isn't 100% returned. It may feel like it, it may be like it is there, but it isn't. I'd agree with 99.999999999999999% but there is ALWAYS some shadow of doubt that some people will have. That is what makes a community a community.
I was curious as to what the law really is and where the origins of voting within the 14th Amendment.
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Section 2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.
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I also found RICHARDSON v. RAMIREZ which was found by the USSC to not be in violation of the 14th Amendment. It is an interesting read.
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