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To: FJB who wrote (121792)12/9/2000 8:07:08 PM
From: Chris Carlson  Read Replies (1) of 186894
 
That's a good question, Robert.

But are you saying that they shouldn't have the right to vote?

I don't think you understand my reference to the 'literacy' tests that took place in the south in the decades after reconstruction and before the civil rights movement was ultimately successful in enfranchising millions of southern voters. They were tests that were administered in an inconsistent manner based on a prospective voter's skin color.

Once you start requiring things of voters other than citizenship (and not being a felon, as you point out), you are on a slippery slope to simply disenfranchising those voters you don't like. Some say we're there already, in Florida. Who it is that is disenfranchised depends on the eye of the beholder, apparently.

But tell me, what is the constitutional argument for not allowing felons to vote?
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