It looks increasingly like Rick Scott's win is illegitimate. If so, what do we do?

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36. I still hate the idea of felons losing the right to vote.

While in prison, yes. By committing crimes, you forfeit some of your rights. But the idea of prison should not be to punsih. It should be to provide a place to serve your time, and then more importantly, provide rehabilitation. The nordic model is much better than what we have here. Once you've served your time, that should be it. (Though clearly there are issues involving things like firearms, or becoming a police officer, that can't happen).

And I sure as hell don't appreciate Democrats being reflexively associated with the felon vote. Do you?

You know, for some odd reason I care more about people's rights than I do our image. If we stand up for people, then it won't matter.

I'm sure if you ask an innocent black man if he wants his vote back he'd tell you he'd rather not have been convicted in the first place.

I'm not sure how that helps. I'm sure he would too. That doesn't mean he doesn't also want to vote.

I'm not soothed by giving the wrongly-convicted back their vote at the cost of letting the guilty vote too. And justice would be better served by keeping people from going to jail just because of their skin color in the first place.

Let me get this straight: you're willing to deny other people's constitutionally protected rights because some people are criminals?

Edit to add that your attitudes towards this are almost exactly what was described in an article discussing the nordic prison systems. Your focus is not on rehabilitation, it's punishment. These punitive attitudes are exactly what leads to a black man being locked up for 15 years because of a single joint. Though you probably won't like me saying this, it's a very conservative attitude to have.