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Does Byron York mean "felons." Or "ex-felons?" Someone "in custody" is a felon, even if on probation.
But once an offender has paid back his or her debt society, they are no longer felons, but EX-felons whose right to vote is restored under the Constitution. Permanent loss of the right to vote would be unconstitutional and violate the 5th Amendment's prohibition against "double jeopardy" and "summary punishment" in excess of what the sentencing stated.
Additionally, to presume that someone having paid back their debt to society would be more likely to vote Democrat or be a Liberal is absurd.
In the eyes of the Obama administration, most Democratic lawmakers and left-leaning editorial pages across the country, voter fraud is a problem that doesn't exist. Allegations of fraud, they say, are little more than pretexts conjured up by Republicans to
justify voter ID laws designed to suppress Democratic turnout.
That argument becomes much harder to make after reading a discussion of the 2008 Minnesota Senate race in "Who's Counting?", a new book by conservative journalist John Fund and former Bush Justice Department official Hans von Spakovsky. Although the authors cover the whole range of voter fraud issues, their chapter on Minnesota...
A felon, or ex felon if you will, permanently looses his right to own a gun. Even though gun ownership is enshrined in the second amendment. So don't give me your nonsense about the fifth amendment and double jeopardy.
Democrats / liberals have set the standard for "soft justice," with obvious benefits to criminals. Also, simple polls of prison populations have shown that the majority of inmates would indeed vote democrat. Presumption is unnecessary.