Sign if you agree: No one should ever lose the ability to vote
Most people with felony convictions temporarily or permanently lose the ability to vote in the United States.
This is one of the many ways that Republicans suppress voter turnout. In fact, when Republicans try to prove their bogus claims of voter fraud, they often look to felon rolls to find evidence of people with felony convictions wrongfully voting.
Many states allow ex-felons to vote once they are "off paper," or have completed their sentence and probation or parole obligations. Others restore the ability to vote as soon as time has been served. In Maine and Vermont, people with felony convictions never lose the right to vote. This should be the law in every state.
Sign if you agree: No one should ever lose their ability to vote.
Our democracy is threatened when any American is stripped of their ability to vote.
People in prison are still subject to the law and still have civil and human rights that must be protected. Therefore they still deserve a say in who represents their interests. No matter what crimes they've committed, incarcerated Americans are still Americans.
The practice of stripping felons of their ability to vote, known as felon disenfranchisement, is rooted in our country's history of chattel slavery.
Though the 14th Amendment gave newly freed slaves full citizenship rights, there was an exception. Accorinding to the 13th Amendment a person's ablility to vote could be stripped if they had been found guilty of a crime. Unsurprisingly, nearly anything black people did became considered a crime.
This system of over-criminalization of communities of color and targeting them for imprisonment and disenfranchisement continues to this day. Now however this disenfranchisement has expanded to include poor Americans of all races, which means the fight for the ability to vote affects every demographic in America.
Progressive democrats can change the conversation by calling for an end to the cadre of racist state-based laws regarding felon disenfranchsiement. Let's stop asking for a sliver of what we know is the right thing to do. It's time to demand that no one ever loses their ability to vote. Period.
Sign if you agree: No one should ever lose their ability to vote.
This is one of the many ways that Republicans suppress voter turnout. In fact, when Republicans try to prove their bogus claims of voter fraud, they often look to felon rolls to find evidence of people with felony convictions wrongfully voting.
Many states allow ex-felons to vote once they are "off paper," or have completed their sentence and probation or parole obligations. Others restore the ability to vote as soon as time has been served. In Maine and Vermont, people with felony convictions never lose the right to vote. This should be the law in every state.
Sign if you agree: No one should ever lose their ability to vote.
Our democracy is threatened when any American is stripped of their ability to vote.
People in prison are still subject to the law and still have civil and human rights that must be protected. Therefore they still deserve a say in who represents their interests. No matter what crimes they've committed, incarcerated Americans are still Americans.
The practice of stripping felons of their ability to vote, known as felon disenfranchisement, is rooted in our country's history of chattel slavery.
Though the 14th Amendment gave newly freed slaves full citizenship rights, there was an exception. Accorinding to the 13th Amendment a person's ablility to vote could be stripped if they had been found guilty of a crime. Unsurprisingly, nearly anything black people did became considered a crime.
This system of over-criminalization of communities of color and targeting them for imprisonment and disenfranchisement continues to this day. Now however this disenfranchisement has expanded to include poor Americans of all races, which means the fight for the ability to vote affects every demographic in America.
Progressive democrats can change the conversation by calling for an end to the cadre of racist state-based laws regarding felon disenfranchsiement. Let's stop asking for a sliver of what we know is the right thing to do. It's time to demand that no one ever loses their ability to vote. Period.
Sign if you agree: No one should ever lose their ability to vote.
