People Should Be Allowed To Vote

The right to vote is a right that according to law is entitled to everyone once you have reached the age of 18, but what happens if you break the law? Do you still have the right to vote for upcoming officials, or once the law has been broken has your right to vote been forfeited? Voting is a privilege and a privilege only. Ignorance is not an excuse and individuals should know better but what if when felonies have completed their time or still is doing time, should they still be allowed to vote? No, but when their debt is paid it is important to bring their rights back and allow them to vote again. The United States is one of the strictest nations when it comes to rejecting the right to vote to citizens that have been convicted of multiple of serious crimes. Thousands of Americans are forbidden to vote because of what philosophers call “felon disenfranchisement,” referring to those people who banned from voting otherwise eligible due to conviction of a criminal offense usually restricted to serious class of crimes

Committing such a serious crime usually portrays an image of poor judgment. Roger Clegg, president of the advocacy group, believes that, “If you are not willing to follow the law, you cannot claim the right to make the law for everyone else.” (Holdings). By breaking the law and using poor judgment, they have proven themselves as being unfit to participate in major decisions and those who are against felonies voting believe that those that are convicted of crimes have portrayed poor judgment, which proves to them that they are not eligible to make good decisions especially when its time to choose the upcoming leaders this is the way society punishes those who break the law and when convicted felons complete their prison sentences their freedom and rights are restored well that’s the way it should