How does everyone feel about felon voting rights?

[JeffHead]

101. If they are counted as constituents, they should be allowed to vote.

As state lawmakers struggle to re-gerrymander … er, I mean, redraw … Florida’s congressional districts, let’s consider the vital contribution that Florida’s prisoners play in this process.

The 100,000 voting-ineligible convicts locked up in Florida’s 56 state prisons are valuable pawns in this political game of voter chess.

That’s because the U.S. Census counts inmates as residents of their prisons, not of the communities where they lived when they were convicted. In Florida, this skews the demographics of some rural prison counties in North Florida, counties that on paper have minority populations that are sizable, but with so many of its counted adults excluded from the electoral process, and not really part of the community.
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http://www.correctionsone.com/corrections/articles/8704629-Non-voting-Fla-prisoners-count-in-redrawing-congressional-maps/