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Originally Posted by Ace_O_Spades
Ah! See, that is my mistake. I assumed the federal government banned them from voting nationwide once they received a felony charge. In Canada we have one criminal code for the entire country. Well besides Quebec, that is run on the civil law system, but that's neither here nor there.
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You know what, that may be my bad as well in oversimplifying this, if you commit a federal crime as a felony I believe you are then disenfrancised from the federal governement.
RICHARDSON v. RAMIREZ which was found by the USSC to not be in violation of the 14th Amendment.
read it, it is about some felonius (is that a word? it sounds cool) individuals who said that California had no right to disenfranchise them. The USSC 1974 stated California was within the US Constitution 14th Amendment.
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Last edited by Cynthetiq; 02-11-2008 at 12:19 PM..
Reason: Automerged Doublepost
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