Apr. 30, 2019
Restoring the right to vote for incarcerated felons?
Several commander-in-chief hopefuls, seeking the White House residency beginning in January 2021, have begun stridently pontificating and sermonizing about restoring voting rights for incarcerated felons.
Joseph H. Cooper
Joseph was editorial counsel at The New Yorker from 1976 to 1996, and now resides in Culver City. He is compiling his prison-related articles for publication as "Corrections - Essays from Inside: The In-Prison Education of Inmate-Students and Their Language-Arts Professor."
Several commander-in-chief hopefuls, seeking the White House residency beginning in January 2021, have begun stridently pontificating and sermonizing about restoring voting rights for incarcerated felons.
At a recent stump speech by Bernie Sanders, the ejaculation got wild applause from a highly partisan but perhaps mostly uninformed crowd.
Sanders must surely know of the obstacles and the blowback...
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