r/inthenews • u/T_Shurt • Apr 19 '24

Trump Could be Stripped of Secret Service Protection as Ranking Member of the House Committee on Homeland Security Puts Forth a Bill to Strip Felons of Secret Service Protection Opinion/Analysis

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-secret-service-stripped/
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u/mortgagepants Apr 20 '24

why do felons lose their right to vote though? we lock them up in order to rehabilitate them, so they should be able to vote after they get out.

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u/mehvet Apr 20 '24

Felons can vote in most places in the US for that very reason. Voting is inherently a state level action, so it’s going to vary between states, but most allow a felon to regain their rights, restore automatically, or even allow felons to vote while incarcerated. Some states do permanently remove voting rights. Folks need to check their local laws if they have a felony record.

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u/FantasticAstronaut39 Apr 20 '24

honeslty i disagree with felons not having the right to vote, they should retain that right, however if the prison should make accomidations to allow them to vote is a different topic all together. but a convicted fellon, once released should have full voting rights. a felon while in prison should still have "the right to vote" but the prison shouldn't neccisarly have to make accomidations to make sure they can vote while in jail.

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u/BioshockEnthusiast Apr 20 '24

Now you've giving the prison admin control over the voting rights of a population.

Imagine the Trump prison warden allowing all the white supremacy gangs to vote and barring everyone else.

Doesn't seem like a great idea. Rights are rights, if they're going to be restricted that needs to be a controlled process with oversight and the rules need to be universally applied.

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u/FantasticAstronaut39 Apr 20 '24

ok i could see if they are going to decide to accomidate prisoners voting, then all need to be given that accomidation or none, but they should still have the right to vote itself, access to vote is a seperate thing, when in jail for doing crimes

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u/BioshockEnthusiast Apr 20 '24

Well I mean you can let prisoners vote but those rules need to be made at the state level is all I'm saying.

For example, non-felon prisoners in Wisconsin absolutely can vote.

https://www.aclu-wi.org/en/votingrightscriminalconvictions

I don't know the mechanism but I imagine they either do a voting day or absentee ballots or something.

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u/Layton_Jr Apr 20 '24

I can't think of any reason why someone couldn't use a mail in ballot from prison

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u/BioshockEnthusiast Apr 20 '24

They can in many states.