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Did palin vote for a convicted felon for US Senate?

Fighting HellfishFighting Hellfish Posts: 3,170
edited November 2008 in A Moving Train
asked who she voted for today, she replied:

I don't have to tell anyone who I vote for! Nobody does. And that's really cool about America."
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  • comfortably numbcomfortably numb Posts: 188
    i'm sorry; could you explain this for me?
    saw things so much clearer
  • mammasanmammasan Posts: 5,656
    comfortably numb wrote:
    i'm sorry; could you explain this for me?

    Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska was found guilty of filing false financial reports. So technically he is a felon because, I believe, they where felony charges. You know our system is all fucked up when a felon isn't allowed to vote but he can still run for office.
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  • Kel VarnsenKel Varnsen Posts: 1,952
    mammasan wrote:
    Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska was found guilty of filing false financial reports. So technically he is a felon because, I believe, they where felony charges. You know our system is all fucked up when a felon isn't allowed to vote but he can still run for office.


    What's the deal with felons not being allowed to vote? I mean to me once you have served your time and paid your debt to society you should be allowed to vote. Otherwise you just remind these people every election day that even if they have made up for their crimes they are still nothing but a criminal. Do they think that if someone with a criminal record is allowed in the polling station they are going to rob the voluenteers?
  • Strangest TribeStrangest Tribe Posts: 2,502
    Kel Varnsen wrote:
    What's the deal with felons not being allowed to vote? I mean to me once you have served your time and paid your debt to society you should be allowed to vote. Otherwise you just remind these people every election day that even if they have made up for their crimes they are still nothing but a criminal. Do they think that if someone with a criminal record is allowed in the polling station they are going to rob the voluenteers?

    Obviously they are afraid to let the felons vote for fear that they will vote to let the felons vote....ahem......:D
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  • blackredyellowblackredyellow Posts: 5,889
    Kel Varnsen wrote:
    What's the deal with felons not being allowed to vote? I mean to me once you have served your time and paid your debt to society you should be allowed to vote. Otherwise you just remind these people every election day that even if they have made up for their crimes they are still nothing but a criminal. Do they think that if someone with a criminal record is allowed in the polling station they are going to rob the voluenteers?

    I agree... Once you fulfilled your sentence, probation, parole or whatever, you should be allowed to vote in my opinion.
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  • beachdwellerbeachdweller Posts: 1,532
    Fighting Hellfish wrote:
    asked who she voted for today, she replied:

    I don't have to tell anyone who I vote for! Nobody does. And that's really cool about America."

    DC voted in a convicted crack addict/user as mayor, why not let alaska vote in a felon into the senate?
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  • comfortably numbcomfortably numb Posts: 188
    Kel Varnsen wrote:
    What's the deal with felons not being allowed to vote? I mean to me once you have served your time and paid your debt to society you should be allowed to vote. Otherwise you just remind these people every election day that even if they have made up for their crimes they are still nothing but a criminal. Do they think that if someone with a criminal record is allowed in the polling station they are going to rob the voluenteers?

    Laws regarding voting rights of felons and ex felons vary from state to state.

    I'm on the fence about this. Having the right to vote taken away is another incentive to not commit felonies. You are responsible for your actions. You don't want to be "just a criminal?" Well, don't be a criminal at all and you don't have to worry about that. You say you served your sentence and that should be that? I agree; but you can argue that having the vote taken away is part of the sentence.

    On the other hand, people make bad choices sometimes, and sometimes it's not a representation of that person. I don't know.
    saw things so much clearer
  • beachdwellerbeachdweller Posts: 1,532
    maybe she didn't want to talk about who she voted for because she voted for Obama?
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