I'm not entirely against disenfranchising felons, however if'n you're going to do that, you shouldn't be counting them as part of the voting age population.
I'm not entirely against disenfranchising felons, however if'n you're going to do that, you shouldn't be counting them as part of the voting age population.
The FL situation sounds messed up, absolutely.
I think we can mostly all agree on "paying" the debt to society. I put that in quotes because I don't think we're taking about fines which make it the cost of doing business for those in an upper income level. I think we both agree we're talking about punishments for serious crimes.
With voting, I don't think it should be taken away at all from citizens. We should have a say in our representation even if we have violated a law. I can't think of any reason to take away voting rights as payment for a crime, can you? It's been used to control and disenfranchise minority populations since it's implementation. It continues to encourage systemic racism
Clearly it would skew the electorate to the hitherto disenfranchised pro-murder caucus /s