MC: Do The Crime, Still Vote

The Ninth Circuit Court has handed Washington Democrats one of their fondest dreams without paying the slightest political price. Two of the Democrats’ most loyal constituencies are the dead and convicted felons. Allies such as ACORN see to it that the dead get to the polls. And a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit decided that the sixties era Voting Rights Act gives felons the right to vote. The court reasoned that denying felons the vote disproportionately disenfranchised African Americans. According to Circuit Court Judge A. Wallace Tashima, the attorneys for the felons “have demonstrated that police practices, searches, arrests, detention practices and plea bargaining practices lead to a greater burden on minorities that cannot be explained in race-neutral ways”/ Michael Costello , Lewiston Tribune. More here .

Question: Do you agree with the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals that felons should have the right to vote?