Seriously tho, why cant fellons vote? (Read my post before you answer)

[intruder]

Voting is a RIGHT under U.S. constitution correct? Isnt there a bill of rights that prevents rights from being stripped? I've been out of school too longso i cant remember all the details.
Can some of you legal experts explain this to me? And please dont go into the whole racist conspiracy theory aspect because we all already know that. I'm asking about how this law is legal,period.

My opinion is if you commit a crime and serve your sentence your debt is paid so all rights and privileges should be automatically restored. And by serve your sentence I mean FULL sentence. None of that "I was sentenced to 10 years and served 7 so they let me out early for good behavior/probation bullshyt."

 

[Box Cutta]

Voting is a RIGHT under U.S. constitution correct? Isnt there a bill of rights that prevents rights from being stripped? I've been out of school too longso i cant remember all the details.
Can some of you legal experts explain this to me?

Section 2 of the 14th Amendment has been interpreted by the Supreme Court as to allow states to bar certain types of felons from voting :

Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richardson_v._Ramirez

The Court pointed to Section 2 of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution which exempted felony disenfranchisement laws from the heightened scrutiny given to other restrictions on the right to vote. The Court said that Section 2, which reduces a state’s representation in Congress if the state has denied the right to vote for any reason “except for participation in rebellion, or other crime,” distinguishes felony disenfranchisement from other forms of voting restrictions, which must be narrowly tailored to serve compelling state interests in order to be constitutional.

And please dont go into the whole racist conspiracy theory aspect because we all already know that. I'm asking about how this law is legal,period.

Too bad, because it's actually a far more interesting discussion and race is almost certainly a big factor in why ex-felons are disenfranchised.

http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1553510,00.html

And don't fall for the line that the nation's original plan called for denying felons the vote. In 1800, no state prohibited felons from voting. On the eve of the Civil War, 80% of the states did, largely to block African Americans, who though rarely allowed to vote were disproportionately represented among felons. Today, the impact of these laws still falls disproportionately on poor, minority males, a fact that seems to have skewed more than a few elections.

My opinion is if you commit a crime and serve your sentence your debt is paid so all rights and privileges should be automatically restored. And by serve your sentence I mean FULL sentence. None of that "I was sentenced to 10 years and served 7 so they let me out early for good behavior/probation bullshyt."

How does this even make a lick of sense?

 

[sanityovar8ted]

i believe after a felon has finished his sentence he gets his voters privileges back. my husband was a felon and after he completed his probation he got his right to vote back and even served jury duty.

 

[Malcolmxxx_23]

i believe after a felon has finished his sentence he gets his voters privileges back. my husband was a felon and after he completed his probation he got his right to vote back and even served jury duty.

why was he a felon?

 

[Malcolmxxx_23]

smh@ having @Willstyles and @Morethan1 voting

naaah

 

[ugksam]

why would you marry a felon?

 

[Just like bruddas]

smh@ having @Willstyles and @Morethan1 voting

naaah

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

I don't have a problem with felons voting

 

[sanityovar8ted]

why was he a felon?

he had committed a crime before i had met him and was placed on probation for a period of time.

 

[sanityovar8ted]

why would you marry a felon?

he was no longer a felon when we got married

 

[Malcolmxxx_23]

he had committed a crime before i had met him and was placed on probation for a period of time.

has he committed any other crime?

 

[sanityovar8ted]

has he committed any other crime?

nope not even as much as a traffic ticket

 

[the cac mamba]

because if you commit a bad enough crime against society, you lose that right

its a bullshyt way to disenfranchise voters, if it was up to me id repeal it. but thats the logic right?

 

[BlvdBrawler]

I think you just have to submit some form in order to get your voting privileges back.

 

[Malcolmxxx_23]

nope not even as much as a traffic ticket

well im happy for you

however if i was a manager i wouldnt hire him at all

i worry that he might rob me, rape me and throw me over the brooklynn bridge