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originally posted by: JHumm
How can this be leagle , isn't this grad ? If you are here illegally how can you vote , does this work for felons too?
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Some of the most common rights lost or severely curtailed by a felony record include:
Voting
Traveling abroad
The right to bear arms or own guns
Jury service
Employment in certain fields
Public social benefits and housing
Parental benefits
Lost voting rights
Most states prohibit felons from voting while they are currently incarcerated. Upon receiving parole or completing their sentences, many convicted felons find that it is more difficult to vote than it was before. Some states ban felons from voting for a certain period of time after their release while others ban felons for life.
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originally posted by: JoshuaCox
a reply to: ElectricUniverse
REGISTERED TO VOTE...
Apparently you are not familiar with the “acorn con”....
What happens is these forms will pay college kids and other unemployed people 5$ per person they register.
Well there used to be no real way to track who was registered in the field. So they would just accept any registrations that were filled out..
This led to people just going home and filling them out with fictional names they would just make up. Rather than actually going out and registering people.
Because of that you can find Elmer Fudd and bugs bunny in every state, BUT THEY OBVIOUSLY DONT SHOW UP TO VOTE.
It is just one more rightwing scandal, investigated by a GOP congressional committee which found no wrong doing..
It is a joke..
Just another way for conservative pundits to make the gop base look like retards..
originally posted by: Mandroid7
originally posted by: JHumm
How can this be leagle , isn't this grad ? If you are here illegally how can you vote , does this work for felons too?
Yeah they shouldn't be able to vote, what's next allow Russians on vacation to vote.
Your statement on Felons is complete BS.
If felons are good enough to pay taxes, they are good enough to vote.
In fact it is illegal that they can't vote, but can be taxed.
No taxation without representation.
This is the only reason some states reinstate your voting rights, it's not so you can participate in a rigged vote with pre picked representation, it's so they can legally tax you.
originally posted by: whywhynot
Trump needs to change the max penalty from one year to ten years for voting as a noncitizen. Then step up it’s enforcement so that these noncitizen idiots know with a high degree of certainty that if the vote they will go to jail.
It is just one more rightwing scandal, investigated by a GOP congressional committee which found no wrong doing..
He said Pennsylvania had already admitted to a “glitch” dating back to the 1990s that had allowed noncitizens applying to renew driver’s licenses to be offered the chance to register to vote. Mr. Adams said he now wants to find out how bad the problem is overall.