TIP: Click on subject to list as thread! ANSI
echo: politics
to: AARON THOMAS
from: Mike Powell
date: 2024-11-22 10:37:00
subject: Re: The awesome new cabin

>  KN> His ability to vote is contingent on his voting status in New York,
>  KN> where he was convicted.  In NY state, a felon CAN vote so long as they
>  KN> are not currently incarcerated.  He was not in jail, so he was still
>  KN> eligible to vote.

> Are you sure? I have a friend who is a convicted felon from NY, and he's a
ig
> Trump guy, but he says that he's not allowed to vote.

Judges can decide not to strip, or permanently strip, voting rights.  IIRC,
at least they can here.

Also, the 2021 NY law that made it legal for felons to vote so long as they
are not incarcerated during the election may not have been retroactive for
those convicted before 2021.  I am not sure about that.


 * SLMR 2.1a * Come in Number 51, Your Time Is Up!
--- SBBSecho 3.20-Linux
                                                  
* Origin: capitolcityonline.net * Telnet/SSH:2022/HTTP (1:2320/105)

SOURCE: echomail via QWK@pharcyde.org

Email questions or comments to sysop@ipingthereforeiam.com
All parts of this website painstakingly hand-crafted in the U.S.A.!
IPTIA BBS/MUD/Terminal/Game Server List, © 2025 IPTIA Consulting™.