Democratic Primaries

It's very easy to feel that the Green River Killer or the Murrah bombers should lose all the rights and privileges we can take from them.

The problem is that they are still citizens, and still owed the rights of citizenship and overall human rights. We don't do exile here, so there's no way to ship them off to a desert island and forget about them. Their freedoms are restricted for reasons of public safety, punishment, and rehabilitation-- how does the right to vote fit into that? Besides, are there really that many such monsters in prison?

And, since it's largely states who set the standards for voting, how do you figure the residence of a gang banger who floated around for years with no permanent address and was convicted in Maine, but sent to a private prison in Georgia?

We started out by offering the vote to anyone who was a white, male landowner. Then we expanded it to white male non-landowners, and then to black men,and finally to women of all races. We even allowed immigrants to vote until around 1936.

Why is so important to further restrict it now?