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Originally Posted by fantASTic
Anyone else catch that? People with felony convictions can't vote.
I dunno. It amused me that the author didn't realize that.
Edit: Just kidding. Turns out that's only in three states.
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Like you, until recently I didn't think that felons could vote in a lot of places. I saw something recently that said many states let them vote again once all aspects of the sentence have been served, so if you served 10 years in prison and were on probation for 10 more, you could vote at the end of those 20 once you had satisfied all the requirements of the sentence.
It seems about right to me although the idea of felons as a specific voting block would worry me a bit. A group unified on a shared history of committing felonies isn't particularly who want my politicians more responsive to because many politicians seem to be so naturally gifted in this area on their own.
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