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Originally posted by Lanny_MacDonald@Sep 23 2004, 02:48 PM
I have no problem with convicted fellons not being able to vote. Do the crime you forfeit your rights to vote. No problem what so ever. And I don't care if they would help get Bush out of office or not, they don't deserve the right to vote.
As for the absentee ballots for the military, there is probably a good reason why those aren't delivered. I'm not sure they would help the Bush cause!
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Ok, sure take away the right to vote from all murderers. But what happens when you are convicted of a suspect felony like marijuano posession? You have a law that makes it a felony to do what probably the majority of people have done. This law is enforced much more strictly on a certain group of the population than others. Now everyone who has been persecuted by the law has no recourse to change it. These are substantial numbers of people now. It seems like a pretty good way to stay in power, convict all your opposers of felonies by making laws that you can enfrorce on them. It leads down a bad road, if you ask me.