Should Felons Be Allowed To Vote?

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In The United states some people think that felons should not the right to vote. I think that they should but in some states they are not allowed to vote. In an article and a news clip in the ABC News they say felons are not allowed to vote in four states. A quotation from by Emily Deruy a reporter for ABC News: states permanently disenfranchise ex-felons, including three swing states that could help determine the outcome of this year's presidential election. Florida, Iowa, Kentucky and Virginia require a decree by the governor or a clemency board to restore voting rights, reports the Huffington Post, and it only happens after a waiting period, the payment of any required fines or fees, and the submission of an application for review. Seven…show more content…
Also a different state has different voting laws some states may ban felons from voting permanently. In an article in Pro and Con O.R.G. they have a summary that says Two states allow felons to vote from prison while other states may permanently ban Felon voting has not been regulated federally although some argue that Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act can be applied to felon disenfranchisement and that Congress has the authority to legislate felon voting in federal elections. Keep felons from voting even after being released from prison, parole, and probation, and having paid all their fines. Some people depending on your crime are not allowed at all they say in that summary they state in Mississippi persons convicted of a felony are barred from voting only if they have been convicted of one or more of the following specific felony crimes "murder, rape, bribery, theft, arson, obtaining money or goods under false pretense, perjury, forgery, embezzlement, bigamy, armed robbery, extortion, felony bad check, felony shoplifting, larceny, receiving stolen property, robbery, timber larceny, unlawful taking of a motor vehicle, statutory rape, carjacking, or larceny under lease or rental…show more content…
NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Jealous kicked off the campaign in Florida, which has the highest level of disenfranchisement in the country. "What this comes down to really is, do you think voting is a right or is it a privilege? Because if voting is a right, people who have paid their debt to society should be allowed to vote," Jealous said earlier Tuesday on "CNN Newsroom." In 2007, then-Gov. Charlie Crist of Florida, a Republican at the time, signed reforms to allow former felons who'd completed their sentences to more easily get their voting rights restored. Four years later, Republican Gov. Rick Scott reversed those reforms, imposing a five- to seven-year waiting period and a complicated application process to get civil rights restored. In issuing the new rules for voting rights for ex-felons, Scott said the changes "are intended to emphasize public safety and ensure that all applicants desire clemency, deserve clemency, and demonstrate they are unlikely to reoffend." (Orjoux,
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