(10-28-2018, 04:13 PM)flsprtsgod Wrote:

(10-26-2018, 09:12 PM)mikesez Wrote: Wait so you're telling me that federal courts hold voting to be a fundamental right, on the same level as speech, assembly, and petition, and they often strike down laws that infringe on that right? It's almost like we have a 15th and a 19th Amendment and they are more important than federal laws and regulations. Nah. couldn't be.

Actually, no they don't. You don't lose your 1st Amendment rights over a felony conviction, voting "rights" are something less.

Sure, there are different ways to lose different rights. Walking into the theater means you can't yell "fire." Joining the military means you are no longer free to say what you want most of the time. Getting a security clearance leaves you not free to discuss or publish the secret matters. And there are ways to lose your right to vote. The courts sort out if the reasons that the government offers for abridging our rights are good enough or not.  "I had somebody who's not trained in handwriting or signature recognition say that they don't think your signatures match, but I can't offer any evidence that there are teams of people stealing absetee ballots and forging the signatures" turns out to not be a very good reason to invalidate someone's right to vote.

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