There Are Good Reasons for Felons to Lose the Right to Vote
8th April 2018
Here’s the answer: If you’re not willing to follow the law, then you should not have a role in making the law for everyone else, which is what you do when you vote — either directly (in the case of a referendum or ballot initiative) or indirectly (by choosing lawmakers and law enforcers).
This is the same reason why we lock criminals up: If you can’t be trusted to move in society without breaking the law, we will remove you from that society so that innocent people, the people that the government exists to protect, are not inconvenience by being robbed, assaulted, or killed.
This ought to be a no-brainer, but apparently some people are slower than others.
Or they have an ulterior motive — Quick: Is a career criminal more likely to vote Republican or Democrat? The question almost answers itself. If you have doubts, look at the people pushing for ‘convict rights’.