Thread: New York governor to allow 35,000 paroled felons to vote

New York governor to allow 35,000 paroled felons to vote

Reuters•April 18, 2018

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York State plans to restore voting rights to about 35,000 New York felons on parole who previously were barred from casting a ballot until they completed their parole, Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Wednesday.

Cuomo will issue an executive order to restore voting rights to those felons already on parole as well as those who enter the parole system each month, a spokesman said.

Most convicted felons in the United States face hurdles and roadblocks to voting, which vary by state. Two states, Maine and Vermont, have no felony disenfranchisement laws and even allow felons to vote while in prison, said Morgan McLeod, spokeswoman for The Sentencing Project, a non-profit advocacy group for criminal justice reform.

Four states - Florida, Kentucky, Iowa and Virginia - ban felons from voting for life, unless their rights are restored by their governor, as Cuomo has vowed to do, said Marc Mauer, executive director of The Sentencing Project.

"They work, pay taxes, and support their families, and they should be permitted to express their opinions about the choices facing their communities through their votes, just as all citizens do," Cuomo said in a statement.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/york-gove...194645914.html

I never thought prisoners or felons should lose their right to vote to begin with.

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Originally Posted by Judy

I never thought prisoners or felons should lose their right to vote to begin with.

Not surprised. Just another one of the many liberal positions you seem to hold. Well, I disagree. It is my position that any criminal felon serving any portion of his sentencing should not be able to vote.

Disenfranchisement seems an appropriate punishment for felons to me. The murderer, rapist, thief, etc. has expressed contempt for his fellow citizens and unmistakably broken the rules of society. It's only fitting that society should deprive him of his role in determining the content of those rules or electing officials who make and enforce them.

Not letting prisoners or felons vote has always sounded like voter suppression to me. When I was growing up felons and prisoners could vote. They would vote absentee ballots and the ballots would be mailed to all the various resident counties ahead of time so they were there to be counted on election day along with all the other absentee ballots. I'm not aware of any problem from this and those were pretty good ole days. I don't know where this idea of "disenfranchisement" came from or what it's purpose is. I'm glad to see it dying on the vine, because I never thought it was right.

Sounds like it was some plot to sustain the War on Drugs. Somebody figured out that there were so many Americans being trapped by these drug laws into felony convictions and prison sentences that they said, "gawd at this rate if these people can vote there will be so many of them, they can change the drug laws and kill our gravy train." Well, yeah, duh!!

NO VOTING FOR FELONS

THEY LOST THAT PRIVILDGE WHEN THEY COMMITED THEIR CRIMES AGAINST SOCIETY

Originally Posted by Judy

I never thought prisoners or felons should lose their right to vote to begin with.

“You have people on the Democratic side saying, ‘We need to get these rights to everyone. Everyone should be able to vote,’"

@ Florida felons are latest point of contention in fight for battleground state's votes

A new Pennsylvania poll is filled with bad news for Republicans

Can a Felon Vote in Pennsylvania? - JobsForFelonsHub.com

https://www.jobsforfelonshub.com/felon-voting-rights/pennsylvania/
Felon Voting Law in Pennsylvania. If you live in Pennsylvania, you can vote once you are released from prison. If you are serving probation or are on parole, you are entitled to vote.

Originally Posted by JohnDoe2

A new Pennsylvania poll is filled with bad news for Republicans


Can a Felon Vote in Pennsylvania? - JobsForFelonsHub.com

https://www.jobsforfelonshub.com/felon-voting-rights/pennsylvania/
Felon Voting Law in Pennsylvania. If you live in Pennsylvania, you can vote once you are released from prison. If you are serving probation or are on parole, you are entitled to vote.

That's just wrong. If you're serving probation, you have not finished paying society for your crime!