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AOC's chief of staff: 'Shouldn't the people most affected by unjust laws' be able to vote from jail?
« on: April 24, 2019, 05:24:07 pm »
AOC's chief of staff: 'Shouldn't the people most affected by unjust laws' be able to vote from jail?
by Julio Rosas
 | April 24, 2019 01:16 PM

With the national conversation turning to voting rights for incarcerated felons, even terrorists, and presidential candidates such as Sen. Bernie Sanders endorsing the idea, Saikat Chakrabarti, chief of staff to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, asked why there was opposition to the idea.

"What's the reason NOT to let incarcerated people vote? Shouldn't the people most affected by unjust laws have some say in electing people to change them?" Chakrabarti asked on Wednesday.

He went to say how important the right to vote is and how it is not a privilege, using the Second Amendment as an example:

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Re: AOC's chief of staff: 'Shouldn't the people most affected by unjust laws' be able to vote from j
« Reply #1 on: April 24, 2019, 06:28:50 pm »
"What's the reason NOT to let incarcerated people vote? Shouldn't the people most affected by unjust laws have some say in electing people to change them?" Chakrabarti asked on Wednesday."


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Re: AOC's chief of staff: 'Shouldn't the people most affected by unjust laws' be able to vote from j
« Reply #2 on: April 24, 2019, 06:39:30 pm »
Precisely which laws are "unjust", and who is qualified to make that determination? Will criminals be denied the "right" to vote if they were convicted under a "just" law? Or are all of our laws unjust because America is a racist, patriarchal, warmongering, capitalist nation?
 
I would love to hear their answers, if only because it would strip away whatever still remains of the mask worn by the radical revolutionaries who are in the process of subsuming the Democrat Party.
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Re: AOC's chief of staff: 'Shouldn't the people most affected by unjust laws' be able to vote from j
« Reply #3 on: April 24, 2019, 09:12:37 pm »
This woman is about as loony as a toon.
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Re: AOC's chief of staff: 'Shouldn't the people most affected by unjust laws' be able to vote from j
« Reply #4 on: April 24, 2019, 09:37:05 pm »
Shouldn't the people who can't be trusted not to break the law (ie people already in prison for breaking laws) be disqualified to vote in US elections.... since they'd probably commit voter and election fraud and vote multiple times IF THEY COULD...?  Oh wait.  That's what the Democrats are counting on.

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Re: AOC's chief of staff: 'Shouldn't the people most affected by unjust laws' be able to vote from j
« Reply #5 on: April 25, 2019, 03:05:53 pm »
If you can't follow the laws, what makes you entitled to having a say in the people that create them?
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