ACLU wants prisons to become polling places
COMMUNIST GROUP PUSHES STATE TO GIVE FELONS MORE VOTING RIGHTS
There are few radical left-wing organizations more obnoxious than the American Civil Liberties Union. That’s because the ACLU doesn’t just pack a tie-dyed Volkswagen full of leftover San Fransisco hippies and drive to your area to protest, they pack a private jet full of lawyers and fly to your area to tell you what to do.
In South Carolina in the month of August alone they sued the state for not allowing a leftist state house candidate on the ballot even though he ran for and failed to win the Democratic Party nomination (which thankfully appears doomed to fail), and then teamed up with the Department of Corrections to stifle legislative attempts to look into numerous allegations of misdeeds.
So why should September be any different? Well, it won’t, because now they are fighting to give prisoners the right to vote.
State law allows people convicted of a felony to vote again once they have served their sentences, including all prison time, probation and parole. [...]
The groups said the state should automatically restore voting rights when people leave prison and that the state’s Department of Corrections and Parole and Probation Department should also act as a voter registration agency.
The groups want the commission to do more to notify ex-felons when they can vote again. [AP]
The ACLU based their claims on an unverified “survey.” Of course, no one can verify the survey has any merit, but it’s a “survey,” so it must, right?
Regardless, I kind of see their point here. There are few people I trust more to choose our elected officials than murderers, rapists, drug dealers, gang members, and other convicted felons.
Plus, for campaign purposes it would be great because they’d make an incredibly reliable voter group. I bet they’d have over 90 percent turnout… what else do they have to do all day? Hell, just drop a few mail pieces to the estimated 14,000 inmates in South Carolina saying you support DOC Chief Jon Ozmint’s efforts to keep parole for violent criminals, and you would have more than enough votes to swing a statewide election.
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Seriously, do you even read what you link to, even your own posts?
Your headline is deliberately misleading. The ACLU is not proposing to make “prisons into polling places”. You say yourself they want “the state to automatically restore voting rights when people leave prison”, not before.
When you say the ACLU teamed up with the DOC to “stifle legislative attempts to look into allegations”, the piece that you wrote and linked to clearly says the ACLU wanted the state to “look into allegations”, and you were griping that Ozmint was just now pretending he was on board with it.
As for the ballot access issues, if you’re really so serious about strictly following election laws, you should talk to your friends in the McCain and Obama camps. Neither of these campaigns met the filing deadline in Texas, and Bob Barr is suing to keep them off the ballot- a reversal of what happened to him in West Virginia and elsewhere. Here’s the article: http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2008/09/bob-barr-busts-ballot.html
I’d like to second Rob’s comment. You’re a fool.
The ACLU is more than willing to defend ANYONE’s right to civil liberties, including kids who want to wear confederate flags to school, or organize their own student led prayer groups.
To call a group that defends our quickly disappearing personal rights “communists,” you really show your true stripes.