OpenGov - Open Government Brainstorm

You have to be kidding. Criminals forfeit their rights when CHOOSING to commit CRIME. How about we also take away the vote from parasites who live on the tax dollars also. Pay no tax, get no vote.

A few states even disallow ex-fellons from voting. I am just saying, that the right to vote should never be removed or moderated, even by our own conduct. It is liked to a system of restricted citizenship. Citizenship is an all or nothing ideal.

Please don't forget that our country was first populated by those considered criminals or undesirables from other countries! Send us your poor, tired, hungry, etc.

Not only felons, EVERYBODY. That is there should be no age or citizenship barriers to voting rights. Everyone who is a resident has a stake in the society, after all. Whether a person wants to vote should be their own decision. Of course they would have to prove residency to vote in the appropriate place, but that's easy enough to establish. People do it all the time when they get a driver's license.

This is an issue I expect ACORN to champion. They would love to get more criminals registered to vote for their liberal candidates and fellow criminals.

I am not very familiar with ACORN, so I looked up their website and now I understand why republicans do not like this group. From their website it reads:

ACORN is the nation’s largest grassroots community organization of low- and moderate-income people with over 400,000 member families organized into more than 1,200 neighborhood chapters in 110 cities across the country. Since 1970, ACORN has been building community organizations that are committed to social and economic justice, and won victories on thousands of issues of concern to our members, through direct action, negotiation, legislative advocacy and voter participation. ACORN helps those who have historically been locked out become powerful players in our democratic system.

As to our burdensome penitentiary system where we purposely segregate unwanted behavior in the attempt to maintain our sudo-utopian society of law biting individuals. Some would say we the human race was born innocent but that quickly changed as the human nature takes over. Some might say that humanity is inherently evil, to this I say baloney, humanity is inherently self serving. A problem of our society is the ever growing rules of law that on the surface seem reasonable and obvious, such as do not harm they neighbor or steel his property or suffer damnation and so forth. The growing bodies of laws seem to perpetually limit our actions and abilities as we strive to innovate and improve ourselves. And yes, the other side of this argument is that humans will always seek the easy path, one that is guarded by laws for which the punishments for such actions are generally well known. Thank god that each and every one of us is unique in our own minds. Conformity to the common rules is a good thing in moderation.

I digress, the idea here is that no one should ever have their singular role in government via the right to vote abridged by their actions, unless said actions removes citizenship as a result. The right to vote must be inherent, bonded, and part of the compact that binds our government under the constitution.

Ex-felons live around us, rent apartments and buy homes, purchase cars and pay child support; and they should not be given an opportunity to vote once they have completed their time? How un-American can this be? Be aware that what goes around, comes around. I thought the US was better than that?