It's only one side that appears to be doing this.
There are fine people on both sides.
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Unfortunately he only got arrested after he voted. I guess the silver lining is that that's probably the last time he'll get to vote if convicted.
Tbf I think felons should be allowed to vote.
... Unless your felony was committed while voting. That seems like an exception...
It's insane that being convinced of a crime makes you ineligible to vote in the USA. Other countries don't have this.
It doesn't. It varies by state, but most states allow convicted felons to vote after completing their sentence. Only about ten states permanently revoke voting rights, but even then, it's not for all felonies, and voting rights can still be restored in some cases.
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Canada does this, polling stations in prison because its a universal right for all citizens
They are. Most states allow felons to vote after completing their sentence.
I dug into this more because I was under the impression it was the case that most states did not: here's what I found
https://felonvoting.procon.org/state-felon-voting-laws/
23 states let you vote after prison. 9 fully stop you off your rights. DC & 2 State let you vote from prison. The others are some level of parole or parole and probation.
Which means overall 9/51 are full loss: everywhere else you can theoretically get it back.
If the Republicans win it could be the last time anyone gets to vote.
Probably not, they'll still hold sham elections to maintain the false veneer of mandate
Nope. In Texas, convicted felons regain voting rights after completing their sentences.
Oh, that's great. (In general, obviously).
So another terrorist attack then. Glad to know the US is still going strong in democracy.
Gosh, what a totally fucking normal reaction to having someone ask you to remove a....checks notes....hat.
Conservatives and the GOP are a cancer.
Wearing clothing in support of political candidates within polling locations is illegal in Texas.
this looks logical on paper, but is absolutely fucking stupid in practice. poll workers already have to watch out for a million things without having to enforce some dress code that fucking obviously trump supporters are going to ignore, and when minimum wage election workers go to enforce this dumb rule, of course the troompa loompas are going to be painted as victims by fox news
So, are you arguing that we should let trump supporters violate the laws so we don't upset them?
Unless you want to have someone with the right equipment and training to deal with those escalations, he's right.
Unfortunately, the cops are wearing the Trump clothing.
Then the cops should be arrested.
In my state, if someone is interfering with a poll worker, the police are required to arrest them when called on to do so. If the police don't, then they are subject to arrest themselves.
Man that sounds great! I wonder if we can figure out what the average response would be? Maybe take the news around the country into account and guess how it would generally play out. Then extrapolate that data into trying to understand why someone would be more hesitant to put themselves into this situation?
Imagine
I was a poll watcher in Texas. Electioneering was never a big deal before because you didn’t have people whose entire personality was being Donald Trump cult members. Electioneering violations were almost always small candidates trying to get name recognition at the last second. They’d have someone post up with a car with signs on it.
But the rules were good for reducing tension because the line to keep out was clear and it kept politicking out of the voting area.
Obviously the entire concept of reducing tension is foreign to the Trump nutters.
Stop making sense!
i keep forgetting i live in a world where trump might be dictator in a couple months. reason is fucking gone. maybe never to return in our lifetime
They do know that votebeat.org is not meant to be an instructional URL, right?
That Trump supporter will be fine in prison. Everyone knows you have to fight someone on the first day and he does that while voting.
Maybe Jesse Lutzenberger of San Antonio Texas could get fucked.
The first such incident of the year, presumably of many to come.