Those convicted of misdemeanors and who’ve not paid all their fines are permitted to vote…people who owe taxes are permitted to vote. People who owe child support are permitted to vote. The real question is – does owing money outweigh your constitutional right to a vote? If so, it should apply to everyone who owes money, not just a felon. The felon has already served prison time to distinguish their serious offense from a minor one. Owing money to the state is as American as voting. Debate me.

The founding fathers were openly hostile to democracy as well. Article 4, Section 4 of the Constitution states in plain English “The United States Govt shall guarantee to every State in this Union a republican form of govt”. We are supposed to be a republic, not a democracy. The founders were intelligent enough to realize that democracy is just another form of tyranny; it’s the tyranny of the 51%. The way we practice democracy – majority rules – is completely evil. Individual rights are not supposed to be violated because the 51% wishes it so. We don’t need everyone voting. We need good, limited govt.

I believe the issue should be over the prosecutorial misconduct in the state attorney’s office where the political machine were prosecuting bogus cases to retaliate against whistleblowers. Every case that went through the state attorney’s office and Hankinson since the early 2000s was tainted by corruption and needs to be thrown out. Please remove Hankinson and Jack Campbell… another step in cleaning up corruption in this region.