A man who was
convicted of a felony registered and voted in the one-stop early voting period in
the 2012 elections. Felon voting is a
Class I felony in North Carolina. The
suspect was sent a letter asking him to appear at a hearing, but he did not
show up.
In a piece
in the Washington Times, RNLA member J. Christian Adams explains the rationale
behind prohibiting felons from voting.
He writes, “Those who have shown contempt for criminal laws should have
no voice in the process of writing them. Giving felons a say in the legislative
process means laws will naturally skew more toward the criminal, to the detriment
of the law-abiding citizen. It is immoral to reward criminals and automatically
give them a voice in the legislative process equal to those who never committed
felonies.”
Ed Meese Award Winner Hans von Spakovsky notes
that in many jurisdictions, felons also lose many other rights like the right
to own a gun, sit on a jury, be a police officer, etc. in addition to voting,
but the Left never mentions or advocates for the restoration of these rights. The Left seems more interested in a partisan
objective of getting Democrats elected through restoring felon voting rights,
than the way it crafts its motives to give rights back to a certain population.
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