07-17-2020, 02:43 AM
I'm with Beez and Hounddoghowlie on this. If your time has been served and your parole is completed, you should have all of your rights restored. Anything less amounts to a life sentence, and if you are under a life sentence, you have no business being out on the streets with the rest of us anyhow.
With that said, this ruling was against felons who have not yet paid their fees or fines, meaning that their terms of parole have not yet been satisfied. They are still under sentence until they satisfy their terms of parole, and so should NOT be allowed to vote.
I also think that any citizen banned from voting should also be exempt from paying taxes. Otherwise, it is taxation without representation, since they are banned from choosing their representation. We fought a whole war over that concept quite some time ago.
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With that said, this ruling was against felons who have not yet paid their fees or fines, meaning that their terms of parole have not yet been satisfied. They are still under sentence until they satisfy their terms of parole, and so should NOT be allowed to vote.
I also think that any citizen banned from voting should also be exempt from paying taxes. Otherwise, it is taxation without representation, since they are banned from choosing their representation. We fought a whole war over that concept quite some time ago.
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’