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Should ex felons have the right to vote?

Should ex-felons have the right to vote?

  • yes

    Votes: 50 84.7%
  • no

    Votes: 6 10.2%
  • not sure

    Votes: 3 5.1%

  • Total voters
    59

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I'm not talking about inmates, parolees, or even probationers. I'm talking about people who have been convicted of a felony and have finished their sentences and any parole or probation.
 
I'm not talking about inmates, parolees, or even probationers. I'm talking about people who have been convicted of a felony and have finished their sentences and any parole or probation.

They finished their sentence. The punishment is over. Now, their life should (let's hope) get back on track. We have to enable ex-felons to live normal lives & not keep them down.
 
The right to vote should not be violated during incarceration. Politics, philosophy and political action are avenues back into society. To cut of an avenue of rehabilitation is bad. It's like cutting off religious programs, a fundamental violation of right to expression. Convicts are not going to organize and vote en masse to release themselves and rule over society with iron fists; that's nonsense. It does no good to restrict the right to vote, and it arguably does harm.

The right to self defense should be recognized for all non-violent felons and violent felons after debatable requirements.
 
I'm not talking about inmates, parolees, or even probationers. I'm talking about people who have been convicted of a felony and have finished their sentences and any parole or probation.

Of course they should. They paid for their crimes.

It's this irrational drive to keep them under a permanent stigma that causes recidivism.

They should be granted full rights once they have fully completed their criminal sentence.
 
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Of course

If they can't be trusted with their full rights in the general population, then they shouldn't be free.
 
I'm not talking about inmates, parolees, or even probationers. I'm talking about people who have been convicted of a felony and have finished their sentences and any parole or probation.
100% yes



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I'm not talking about inmates, parolees, or even probationers. I'm talking about people who have been convicted of a felony and have finished their sentences and any parole or probation.
In that situation those individuals should have all their rights restored.
 
I'm not talking about inmates, parolees, or even probationers. I'm talking about people who have been convicted of a felony and have finished their sentences and any parole or probation.
I would say it would be dependent on certain factors.

For instance, if someone is a repeat felon, especially repeat violent felon, maybe not. I would also suggest that those who "have paid their debt to society", the idea that they may have paid for their crimes is somewhat erroneous. Individual victims sustain losses, sure, but so does the rest of society. With the cost of incarceration to taxpayers costing us on average, per inmate, over $30K per year, perhaps if they reimburse the system for that, attorney/court costs... then maybe they have actually paid their debt to society. https://www.federalregister.gov/doc...etermination-of-average-cost-of-incarceration

Some crimes can never be repaid sufficiently. Crimes, such as dealing hard core drugs that destroy people's, entire families, lives, hurt communities and do untold damage that cannot be properly calculated or ever completely reversed/reimbursed.

I don't care which side they vote for, people who have shown a propensity to make very poor decisions for themselves, after the first time, probably should not be in a position to leak that faulty inability onto the rest of society.
 
I'm not talking about inmates, parolees, or even probationers. I'm talking about people who have been convicted of a felony and have finished their sentences and any parole or probation.

Yes, but there should be no such thing as probation for a felony conviction.
 
Absolutely - no doubt about it.
 
I'm not talking about inmates, parolees, or even probationers. I'm talking about people who have been convicted of a felony and have finished their sentences and any parole or probation.

We allowed Teddy Kennedy to be Senstor for the ret of his life.....
 
I'm not talking about inmates, parolees, or even probationers. I'm talking about people who have been convicted of a felony and have finished their sentences and any parole or probation.

Liberals are simply hilarious they tell you how a felon has served his time and should be ALLOWED to vote because we all know they would vote demoRAT but ask those same hypocrites can that felon also be allowed to have a gun ,even for hunting to provide food and see how the deflection , and oh wells , we can't do that , hell we don't trust them with a gun but they can pick who leads our Country . :lol:
 
They finished their sentence. The punishment is over. Now, their life should (let's hope) get back on track. We have to enable ex-felons to live normal lives & not keep them down.

That means owning a shotgun too ! Hell they love hunting ! :shock:
 
Of course they should. They paid for their crimes.

It's this irrational drive to keep them under a permanent stigma that causes recidivism.

They should be granted full rights once they have fully completed their criminal sentence.

He can use you as a character reference on his pistol permit RIGHT ? :lol:
 
Liberals are simply hilarious they tell you how a felon has served his time and should be ALLOWED to vote because we all know they would vote demoRAT but ask those same hypocrites can that felon also be allowed to have a gun ,even for hunting to provide food and see how the deflection , and oh wells , we can't do that , hell we don't trust them with a gun but they can pick who leads our Country . :lol:

I'm a liberal on some issues and I think once a person serves their sentence they should be able to vote and have a gun. Most importantly they should be able to get employed
 
Yes, but there should be no such thing as probation for a felony conviction.

Well the probation part comes into play after his third and fourth arrest for misdemeanors , come on get with the program ! You didn't think he would be a model citizen did you ? :lol:
 
I'm a liberal on some issues and I think once a person serves their sentence they should be able to vote and have a gun. Most importantly they should be able to get employed

BS , and you know it . Never met a liberal that wasn't a gun control freak , so cut the BS ! :lol:
 
I'm a liberal on some issues and I think once a person serves their sentence they should be able to vote and have a gun. Most importantly they should be able to get employed

You just lost your lib badge , now drop those flowers and those protest signs ! :lol:
 
Should ex felons have the right to vote?
Yes. Once their time is served. all rights and privileges should be restored.





The right to vote should not be violated during incarceration.
Simply no.
1. They have already established they engage in faulty thinking by breaking the law.
2. Part of the punishment are restrictions on their rights and should only be restored after the sentence.





I would also suggest that those who "have paid their debt to society", the idea that they may have paid for their crimes is somewhat erroneous. Individual victims sustain losses, sure, but so does the rest of society. With the cost of incarceration to taxpayers costing us on average, per inmate, over $30K per year, perhaps if they reimburse the system for that, attorney/court costs... then maybe they have actually paid their debt to society.
Having paid their debt to society is framed on having served their sentence, a sentence that society has deemed is appropriate. While individual citizens can complain about that, the person has paid their debt under it's meaning.


As for paying? Counter opinion ...

It is society that has deemed the person's action inappropriate for their society. As it is society which chooses to inflict such punishment, society should foot the bill for it.

And suggesting they pay for their own incarceration is just ridiculous. That is placing an unnecessarily burden on the individual and amounts to nothing more than excessive punishment.
While society certainly can enforce such absurdities, it really accomplishes nothing.
 
I'm not talking about inmates, parolees, or even probationers. I'm talking about people who have been convicted of a felony and have finished their sentences and any parole or probation.
Absolutely, yes. And it should be automatic. No applications or approvals from the Governor necessary. The day comes, it's done.

One exemption: If the felony was for a voting-related offense, i.e. voter fraud, rigging an election, etc., then they should not get it back. Ever.
 
Yes, so long as they have finished their sentence and have lived on the outside for a certain amount of time without committing another crime.
 
I'm not talking about inmates, parolees, or even probationers. I'm talking about people who have been convicted of a felony and have finished their sentences and any parole or probation.

Once all punishment has been completed, the full of a citizen's rights should be recognized once more.
 
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