An explanation on felon voting rights for the presidential election

[@lanift3361]

If you can’t vote you shouldn’t pay taxes

[@AMYV3]

That is sooooo weird. You can’t vote if you are a felon That makes no sense. Sure if you are on death row or doing life. But people who have already been released 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤦‍♀️. Does anyone know if it’s this way in Canada where I live ?

[@albertoperalez1138]

Not everyone that gets a felony case is a bad person. Read that again. Some people may had made 1 bad decision but shouldn't be deemed to lose everything. 😕

[@roxanne5077]

There needs to be some objective standards of responsibility and commitment to our laws that we require people to meet before they are given a role in the solemn enterprise of self-government, which doesn't need to include felons.

[@roxanne5077]

People who have committed serious crimes against their fellow citizens don’t meet those standards. And those crimes can include such “non-violent felonies” as, say, treason and espionage, or voter fraud and public corruption, white-collar crime and felonies merely “concerning drugs” - like trafficking in fentanyl-laced heroin and selling it to minors as just some examples

[@jaeboston9228]

Sure, why not? These people have paid their debt to society. They continue to be penalized for the rest of their life because of a mistake that have been made during their life. As long as they follow the statutes that have been put in place for them to re-enter Society, again, I ask why not?

[@MollyT-zk4ch]

I had my convictions erased and sealed, can I vote now?

[@raymondbarrett9817]

All Americans should be able to vote regardless being a felony or not once your born in America you should be able to vote every America citizen of the legal age to vote should be able to even those in prison 💯💯💯💯💯💯💯

[@bronxmosthated1]

Why are Felony lifetime

[@AllStarRealEstateSteveHula]

I know a convicted felon can run for President of the United States but may not be able to vote in the election😂

[@israel8847]

Who made it to the White House without winning Florida?

[@evellynbaker4155]

So it only works only when rich people have been convicted.

[@protennis365]

Actually as a poor black man living in Philadelphia that is not true. I have a violent felony record, but I can vote before or after incarceration.

[@itisistacyTarotReader]

one law one country.

[@roxanne5077]

If you’re not willing to follow the law, then you should not have a role in making the law for everyone else.

[@Nowthats]

So if you get a speeding ticket you should never be allowed to drive again? If you steal from a store you should never have a right to enter a store for the rest of your life? With you logic if you break a law you should never have any rights again. You ever think due to bad laws to begin with someone might be punished? Biden just pardoned thousands of people in jail for pot. Is recommending that all states release those individuals being held for pot charges. Now that's a law they broke & held as a felony conviction in many cases. But here's the president of the US letting some out and saying it shouldn't be held against them and further more completely released from the jail. The law says go to jail & get a record for LIFE. I agree with you on some levels for maybe violent offenses but for having a bag of pot catching felony. Then not being allowed to vote or carry a firearm for LIFE is a bit extreme.

[@AnthonyRivera-sq2wv]

No taxation without representation😂

[@KingAries85]

Then don’t expect them to pay taxes if you are not gonna let them have a say in their own county or hood then why are they paying taxes for it ?

[@roxanne5077]

@@KingAries85 On top of the crimes felons commit against others, tax payers have to fund the prison system, felons should consider the time out of prison as paying taxes for the cost of their own criminal activities & all the money theyve already cost tax payers...or better yet, dont be a criminal/felon. "Key Statistics: Total U.S. government expenses on public prisons and jails: $80.7 billion + On private prisons and jails: $3.9 billion +"

[@PressPlay33]

Yeah Trump too