Sentences with phrase «convicted felons vote»

Cuomo signed an executive order on Wednesday that will let more convicted felons vote.

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«Convicted, violent felons gave up their right to vote when they committed the heinous crimes for which they were incarcerated.

Residents of LeFrak City in Queens are suing the NYC Board of Elections, saying their right to vote is being denied by the board moving a polling site away from the hotbed of support for convicted felon and NYC Council candidate Hiram Monserrate.

The biggest problem in the Miami mayoral race was the abuse of absentee ballots, not the voting of convicted felons.

Tedisco said the Majority's plan does not contain provisions for pension forfeiture for convicted felon elected officials who betray their oath of office, term limits for leaders, truth in spending to bring sunlight to state spending in the shadows to end quid pro-quos, or giving rank and file members the ability to bring legislation to the Floor for a vote and diminish the unbridled power that's been given to legislative leaders.

These include: pension forfeiture for convicted felon elected officials who betray their oath of office, term limits for leaders, truth in spending to bring sunlight to state spending in the shadows to end quid pro-quos, equal staffing and resources for members, and giving rank and file members the ability to bring legislation to the Floor for an up or down vote.

Other potential reforms explored by the report and enacted in some states, though not New York, include online voting, pre-registration of 16 - and 17 - year - olds, «vote - by - mail,» and re-enfranchising convicted felons.

But prior to the order, convicted felons did not have their voting rights restored until completing their parole.

Terry McAuliffe in 2016 announced convicted felons would have their voting rights restored, arguing the old system was based on denying people of color the right to vote.

The governor of Virginia announced he would restore voting rights to 200,000 convicted felons through executive action, saying the law is a remnant of Jim Crow.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D.) will be granting all convicted felons in the state who are on parole a pardon, a move that will restore voting rights to more than 35,000 people.

Appealing to his left flank, Gov. Cuomo announced Wednesday that he's signed an executive order to give convicted felons on parole the right to vote.

The 1940 law allowed for convicted felons to regain their «honour» and register to vote.

Liberal state has no guts, we voted a convicted felon to office (comptroller) a few years ago, Vote in November, Vote Paladino.

«Convicted felons like Michael Grimm lost their rights as a price for their crimes,» she said in a statement that also noted Grimm couldn't vote for president in 2016, but would have been able to under Cuomo's order.

Convicted felon and former Bronx State Senator Efrain Gonzalez, Jr. was unable to vote last year — even though his federal term of incarceration ended last August.

Saddled with an unresponsive public defender, Dee is offered a Faustian bargain: she can plead guilty, receive a ten - year probation, pay a small fine, and return to her children immediately, but as a convicted felon she'll lose her voting rights and be ineligible for government assistance.

But, it is something entirely different when the votes contain dead people, convicted felons, and other such irregularities.

Americans are split on whether convicted felons should be allowed to vote, according to a new survey by FindLaw.

For instance, if a person is a convicted felon and has not gotten their voting rights restored, they will not be eligible to vote no matter what they say at the DMV.