B: Iowans have been debating whether to restore voting rights to convicted felons who have paid their debt to society. But at a town hall meeting at Muscatine West Middle School in Iowa on Saturday, 202o presidential hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said felons should never lose the right to vote in the first place.
The Des Moines Register reported that only in Bernie Sanders’ home state of Vermont and in Maine are convicted felons allowed to vote from behind bars.
“I think that is absolutely the direction we should go,” Sanders said.
“While most states disenfranchise felons, Sanders said the convicted still have a right to participate in elections,” the Register reported. more
SNIP: A felon can go to court to get his or her voting rights reinstated.
“Convicted Felons Have a Right to Vote– Even from Behind Bars”
…seems legit, since the people they’d be voting for BELONG behind bars…
…although I’d be OK with it if they were to vote Hillary in as Queen of Cell Block H, as long as she’s SHARING the cell block with them…
Commiecrat
If he becomes president everyone in prison will be able to vote – except for political prisoners.
“…except for political prisoners.”
…otherwise known as Trump supporters…
I wonder why nobody ever points out that this is a cynical way to get more votes for the Democrat Party. All the felons know the Dems are very, very soft on crime so it’s in their best interest to vote Dem. In addition if you think that voter fraud/intimidation is bad on the outside I imagine inside it would be a nightmare in the slammer with the shot-callers ensuring every one in their gang as well as those independents vote exactly the way their told on pain of beatings. In effect, Sanders is calling for not only a nice vote buffer for himself and other Dems but also in favor of intimidation, beatings, bribes or worse to attain that goal.
►THAT BERNIE SUCK◄
Bernie is obviously suffering from a whole host of maladies that have impacted his brain:
Hiatal hernia
Inguinal hernia
Hemorrhoids
Thrush
Arthritis
Irritable bowl syndrome
and last, but certainly not least:
Foot-and-mouth disease
He’s not medically or mentally fit to be President.
“Iowans have been debating whether to restore voting rights to convicted felons…”
Oh, sure. They’ve been going pro and con on this at every diner and morning coffee house. And Hillary’s a saint.
The democrats cater to anyone who might vote for them. They need every vote they can muster.
I do support felons ability to vote – for ‘Miss Cell Block H’, ‘Most likely to drop the soap’, etc.
The dead have always had the right to vote, (Democrat only) even after cremation. I’ll bet Nipsey Hustle is voting for Bernie.
When you have violated societal norms by committing a severe crime, like a felony, you should lose your right to vote. Once you have paid your debt to society, that right should be restored.
^ I question whether criminals “pay their debt to society,” or, are rightly punished by removing them from society (i.e., imprisoned). For the latter, the crime must be so egregious that societal trust in them forever vanishes, thus the prohibition from voting. Capital crimes should extinguish many “rights.”
Concerning what Batshit Bernie is for, to paraphrase Groucho Marx, “Whatever it is, I’m against it!”
By voluntarily committing felonies they voluntarily gave up the right to vote, so suck it you old commie whore
I thought the whole point of incarceration was to disenfranchise – from pretty much everything?
Don’t do the crime, etc, etc.
Throughout history, fascists recriuted criminals to do their street violence and genocide.
No different now with crony commie sanders.