FELON VOTING
This is ridiculous:
"A bill sponsored by Rep. Keith Ellison, DFL-Minneapolis, would move up reinstatement of the franchise to the time when felons leave jail or prison. It would also require that they be notified then of their restored rights." Source: Star Tribune, March 2, 2005
I found this quote in a great article on this subject from National Review:
"The continuing emphasis on this issue by Democrats shows its great importance to them. It's clearly not lost on Democrat leaders that if just a fraction of those felons in Florida had been permitted to vote, Al Gore would now be sitting in the White House. In fact, a report issued in 2000 by Professors Christopher Uggen of the University of Minnesota and Jeff Manza from Northwestern University showed that if felons nationwide had been allowed to vote between 1972 and 1998, at least five Republican Senate candidates who won would have been defeated. 'In every case, the Democratic candidate was hurt by disenfranchisement,' Prof. Uggen stated. He and Manza also said they estimate that about a quarter of currently ineligible felons would be likely to vote in a presidential election. That means about a million more votes for the Democrat." Source: National Review, March 2, 2005
Ellison clearly understands the partisan advantage that is gained by the DFL for allowing convicted felons to vote.
"A bill sponsored by Rep. Keith Ellison, DFL-Minneapolis, would move up reinstatement of the franchise to the time when felons leave jail or prison. It would also require that they be notified then of their restored rights." Source: Star Tribune, March 2, 2005
I found this quote in a great article on this subject from National Review:
"The continuing emphasis on this issue by Democrats shows its great importance to them. It's clearly not lost on Democrat leaders that if just a fraction of those felons in Florida had been permitted to vote, Al Gore would now be sitting in the White House. In fact, a report issued in 2000 by Professors Christopher Uggen of the University of Minnesota and Jeff Manza from Northwestern University showed that if felons nationwide had been allowed to vote between 1972 and 1998, at least five Republican Senate candidates who won would have been defeated. 'In every case, the Democratic candidate was hurt by disenfranchisement,' Prof. Uggen stated. He and Manza also said they estimate that about a quarter of currently ineligible felons would be likely to vote in a presidential election. That means about a million more votes for the Democrat." Source: National Review, March 2, 2005
Ellison clearly understands the partisan advantage that is gained by the DFL for allowing convicted felons to vote.
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