>>>Someone please explain to me what possible benefit there could be by not letting these people vote?
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>>You're kidding, right?
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>No I'm not - I just don't understand why they should not be allowed to vote. Perhaps I'm missing something or don't understand fully, but what's wrong with letting a USA citizen vote after they've paid their debt to society?
Well, a case could be made that when you vote for legislators you are voting for people to make laws. If you break laws, your vote may represent a conflict of interest :-) I really don't care much one way or another (except I hate the expression "paid their debt to society") but I find the smarmy hypocrisy of the Democrats on the issue to be unsettling. They don't care about the "rights" of the felons, they want their votes and for them to pretend otherwise insults the intelligence.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
