Pros And Cons Of Disenfranchisement

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Hurry hurry read all about it, Donald J. Trump may become the 46th president of the United States. The sound of this happening sends fear and pandemonium into the African American, Latino’s, and any illegal immigrant that may live in America. Mr. Trump has made mention of closing the Mexican borders and sending illegal aliens back to their own countries; then some African Americans believe that because he is a billionaire republican that he may bring back slavery and oppression to the African American people, and the only way to defeat this nemesis Donald J. Trump is to vote or die. Banning someone from voting because of a felony conviction is called disenfranchisement. Felony disenfranchisement laws can be traced back to ancient Greek and Roman traditions where people who committed serious crimes faced a civil death which basically meant that they lost their civil rights such as voting.
Shortly following the American Civil War (1861–65), the Fifteenth Amendment was ratified, guaranteeing that the right to vote would not be denied “on …show more content…
States cannot limit voting qualifications based on race or sex because of the fifteenth and nineteenth amendments; however, the fourteenth amendment specifically allows them to limit those qualifications based on criminal convictions. Of the 48 states that disenfranchise individuals upon conviction until they complete their sentence, Florida, Iowa, Kentucky, and Virginia does not have automatic restoration of rights, so that a person can exercise their rights to vote. Being that Florida is a swing state, which means that both parties have almost an equal amount of supporters and that the support could swing either way. Florida becomes a must win state if a person would want to win the presidency. So to disenfranchise more than 1.6 million people in Florida is it
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