While incarcerated I do not think they should be eligible to vote. Some felons should be allowed to vote depending on their charges and their behavior since release.

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"In Honor There Is Hope"

Canada born, Georgia raised.

Once they been released from prison they should have all their rights restored to them,

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"There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag… We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language… and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.”—Theodore Roosevelt

Violation of the social contract should carry some from of lifetime penalty. Losing voting rights, IMO, is a pretty good way to apply that penalty. It doesn't expose a person to any undue risk of harm, it simply tells them that they no longer have a voice in the process. I also think that they should lose any tax deductions for political contributions.

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Our nation has not always lived up to its ideals, yet those ideals have never ceased to guide us. They expose our flaws, and lead us to mend them. We are the beneficiaries of the work of the generations before us and it is each generation's responsibility to continue that work. - Laura Bush

Leftists and very small children don't seem to be able to understand that the Government isn't there to "fix" the economy, anymore than a tick is there to fix your dog.~Oftencold

I voted no, here's why:

Most felonies involve one person violating the rights of another. When someone does that they give up any rights they had and society gets to decide which ones they get back. I for one don't want convicted felons voting people into office that will be weaker on crime.

Others the shouldn't get back:
- Right to keep and bear arms.
- Privacy rights, no search would be unlawful when conducted on a felon.

Well I was considering they were in jil/prison during the voting period. And as in the days of yoooor, I voted .

Once placed in a jail/prison most rights are lost.

Yet once released and they meet whatever is the conditions all rights should be restored.

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"There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation... One is by sword... The other is by debt."

John Adams 1826

Felons, once released from prison, should be allowed to vote in virtually every case with the possible exception of voter fraud.

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The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so.

-- Hitler, April 11 1942