Sentences with phrase «felon voting»

(CNN)- Tayna Fogle sat just behind Sen. Rand Paul, nodding her head and listening as he pressed the case with Kentucky state senators to restore felon voting rights.

There's also their 187 cases of generic «Casting Ineligible Vote» by Voters, which includes some felon voting (not caught by voter ID), some non-citizen voting (which is included above), but mostly there isn't information on what type it was.

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

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In a show of support for investor protection, the SEC unanimously adopted rules that block felons from pitching specific types of private investment deals and in a 3 - 2 vote adopted a rule that requires firms offering private placements to make additional disclosures to regulators prior to being able to advertise it.

Voting restrictions for felons is not a federally regulated thing, and personally I think taking away anyones right to vote is highly unconstitutional.

«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.

Also, as far as groups not having voting rights, all children will eventually become adults, and WILL be able to vote, and the ability of felons to vote varies from state to state, and that issue is far from settled at that.

In the 2000 Florida election, at least 1,100 eligible voters were wrongly dropped from voting rolls in an attempt to purge a list of felons

The new directive includes New York in a list of 14 states and the District of Columbia that allow felons to vote in elections after serving their sentence, and bypasses the state Legislature on a measure long - sought by activists.

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.

(In New York, felons may vote only after completing their prison and / or parole terms.)

At our state conference last month, we overwhelmingly passed resolutions supporting guaranteed healthcare as a human right, free public education from pre-K through college or trade school, a living wage and fair compensation for all, investments in environmental protection and renewable energy, restoration of voting rights to former felons, public financing of elections to eradicate the corrupting influence of big money in politics, and other policies that serve the people.

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

District Judge Mark Walker last week ruled the board must overhaul the voting rights restoration process for felons.

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.

WAMC's Dr. Alan Chartock discusses President Trump allowing the release of California Representative Devin Nunes» memo, a Florida Judge's decision to restore felon's voting rights after time served and the WAMC Locked Box.

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.

Already in the primary, Nixon has been credited with pushing Cuomo to the left on some issues, including his executive order granting paroled felons the right to vote in the state.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who is running for reelection and faces a Democratic primary challenge from actress and education activist Cynthia Nixon, promised to grant 35,000 felons currently on parole in New York State the right to vote.

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.

NY Gov. Cuomo grants 3,500 paroled felons the right to vote; Washington, D.C., may allow 16 - year - olds to vote in the 2020 presidential election.

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

He has to come to people who he would turn into felons and ask them for their vote.

Iceland now does not withdraw the right to vote from felons, but an untarnished reputation is required to hold certain public offices, or a law licence.

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

On April 18, the governor announced that he intended to restore voting rights to felons on parole, potentially creating 35,000 new voters in the state.

In the one month since Nixon entered the race, Cuomo has put an end to the IDC, said «the facts have changed» about legal recreational marijuana, announced plans to restore voting rights to felons on parole in New York, killed an offshore natural gas pipeline that had been in the works, and issued an executive order to prevent federal immigration official from state buildings.

«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.

Republicans running to replace term - limited Attorney General Pam Bondi would continue with the state's legal approach to defending a controversial process for restoring felons» voting rights.

New York had been one of 22 states where felons lost voting rights during imprisonment, and for a certain period afterward, according to a report in November by the National Conference of State Legislatures.

But Democrats seeking the state Cabinet post oppose Bondi's handling of the legal battle and support a proposed constitutional amendment that, if approved by voters in November, would automatically restore voting rights to felons who have served their sentences.

Mr. Cuomo has pushed his own progressive record, including raising the minimum wage and creating a paid family leave program, as he has pressed forward on new liberal initiatives, most notably promising to restore voting rights to former felons on parole by simultaneously granting 35,000 pardons.

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.

This would help the DA get more federal dollars for drug prosecutions as well as keep the black people in the town from voting him out of office since much of the community would be felons, even if they were innocent.

Once you're labeled a felon, the old forms of discrimination — employment discrimination, housing discrimination, denial of the right to vote, denial of educational opportunity, denial of food stamps and other public benefits, and exclusion from jury service — are suddenly legal.

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

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

Thirty - three percent of Americans feel felons should be allowed to vote, according to the survey.

Forty - two percent say felons should not be allowed to vote.

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.