>>>>Florida has over 30,000 felons registered to vote, which is in violation of Florida law. The story says Ds outnumber Rs by 2 to 1. I'll bet that is new math. My experience says it's more like 100 to 1. More to follow. . . .
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>>>>http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-flbfelons1012sboct12,0,3762352.story
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>>>I have to admit I'm a bit amazed that any state has a law that says a citizen can't vote. 10 states have this sort of law - astonishing.
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>>I doubt the felons are regular citizens :-)
>>Here their citizen rights (I don't know if that is the rights term) are canceled during the sentence. They have no right to vote.
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>According to the article, about 25,000 of the 30,000 are ex-prisoners. Do you believe someone who was in prison should never be allowed to vote again? I thought the idea was to "repay your debt to society." When you get out isn't the debt supposed to be paid, or do you remain in a different form of prison?

I hear the 'pay your debt to society' stuff and my toes curl. Prisoners aren't paying anything - they are involved in a state imposed 'time out' where they get to lift weights, become more racially polarized, and learn new criminal skills. By both their ciminal behavior and their incarceration they've cost "society" much more than they have contributed.

I am not terribly concerned that their voice be heard in the electoral process and I am damn sure that the Democratic party would not be either unless they were very certain it would be a net plus for them at the ballot box.

I don't object to the attempt to tilt the table as much as I really object to the hypocrisy of saying one is trying to level the world.