As Democrats compete with each other who could make this country more like Venezuela, Comrade Bernie Sanders has another brilliant idea in Iowa. Lets have felons, who are still in jail be able to vote, from behind bars or something. Bernie Sanders is the nut I think the Democrats will nominate next year to run against Trump. Imagine how this country would be after four years of Sanders.
| Comrade Bernie Sanders: Let’s have felons vote from behind bars |
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The Des Moines Register reports that the Vermont independent, who is running as the most progressive candidate for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, suggested that prisoners should be allowed to vote from behind bars — a step further than Iowa seems willing to go.
“I think that is absolutely the direction we should go,” Sanders told the audience at Muscatine’s West Middle School.
The Register reports that Sanders’ home state of Vermont, and neighboring state, Maine, allow convicted felons to vote while they serve their prison sentences — the only two states in the country who recognize that right. Around 14 other states have done away with the idea that those who have committed serious and often violent crimes should be permanently barred from casting a ballot.
“In my state, what we do is separate. You’re paying a price, you committed a crime, you’re in jail. That’s bad,” Sanders told his audience. “But you’re still living in American society and you have a right to vote. I believe in that, yes, I do.”