The vote for fellons

It is all about numbers

It looks as though John Conyers has sponsored HR 3335, a bill seeks to put felons back on the voter rolls. I guess his wife, who is currently serving a prison sentence, reported back that there are oodles of votes for the left all over the prison yard.

Who co-sponsored the bill? Alcee Hastings – a former federal judge removed from the bench on corruption charges. Charlie Rangel – the tax cheat. Barney Frank - the guy who claimed he had no idea his boyfriend was running a brothel out of his apartment. I’m not sure this is the same boyfriend he fixed parking tickets for, when you look like Barney Frank you have to do all sorts of illegal things to keep yourself surrounded by boy toys.


In 2000 in Florida, around 5,000 convicts voted illegally, about 80% of whom were registered Democrats. Had the over 600,000 felons in Florida been able to vote legally, they would easily have overcome George Bush’s slim margin of victory. In the 2004 gubernatorial election in Washington, the Seattle Times found 129 voters who were confirmed to have voted illegally, in just the two counties they surveyed. That year, the Democrat won the race by 129 votes. In states that allow some form of felon voting, Bill Clinton won 86% of the felon vote in 1992 and 93% in 1996.

A study by Northwestern University and the University of Minnesota discovered that Democrats could have turned numerous defeats at the ballot box into victories by giving the vote to convicted felons. For example, Republican Senators John Warner of Virginia and John Tower of Texas would never have first won election in 1978 if felons had voted in those elections, which would have given Democrats a 60 vote super-majority. The Republican Senate majorities of 4-10 seats from 1994-2004 would never have happened; instead the Democrats would have held majorities of the same margin.