Monday, August 10, 2020

Letting felons vote makes sense, sometimes

Felons don’t have a constitutional right to vote, but it does make sense to allow those who have completed their sentences to have their rights restored. This is especially true when so many crimes have been classified as felonies.


Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds this week granted voting rights to about 40,000 convicted felons. For those convicted in Iowa of lower-level felonies, her orde

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from Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs Letting felons vote makes sense, sometimes