Convicted of drug crime? Should never lose right to vote.

Convicted of violent crime? Should regain right to vote upon release.

Convicted of trying to overturn an election? Never get to vote again.

What third world shit is that? You can't vote if you've been convicted of a felony? That's some medieval thinking right there, god the US is a hopeless barbaric mess only thinly disguised as a democracy.

If the person has paid by doing their sentence and are in good faith trying to integrate into society, they should be able to vote.

Except traitors and or domestic terrorists, they can go fuck themselves.

What rational argument is there for citizens to lose their right to vote?

Say you lose your right to vote over possession of drugs. Why? You shouldn't you have representation?

While in prison you become slave labor. For profit prisons get money for housing and feeding you. They get money from the contracted work you do. They double and triple dip profits. There's all kinds of under the table deals being done on your back. But why did you lose your right to vote? It all goes back to controlling certain groups of the population. That's where it started, that's where it still is. Sure, restrict gun ownership for felons, that's a constitutional right that has long needed overhaul for so many reasons, but the right to vote, why??

Problem is, that would be for federal crimes ionly. But, the biggest problem is that states write the rules for all elections, not the feds

In late 2022, approximately 4.6 million people were unable to vote due to a felony conviction

Holy shit America! WTF??? That's over 2% of the adult population!

Good. It is unlikely that there would be enough criminals, guilty of any crime actually worthy of being such, to successfully legalize that crime even if they wanted to (and for any reasonable crime most probably wouldn't even want such, even theives don't want to be stolen from). As such, there isn't any particular risk in letting felons vote. However, not letting them do so allows laws to be weaponized to disenfranchise people

I'm fine with incarcerated felons not voting. But they should have a pathway to voting when they're released. Maybe immediately upon release, or after probation. Something.

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