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MalabarJag · 10-28-2018, 09:26 PM

(10-28-2018, 07:56 PM)mikesez Wrote:
(10-28-2018, 04:13 PM)flsprtsgod Wrote: 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.

The names don't match, not just the signatures.

And while there are voting rights in the Constitution, it is not a fundamental right like speech. The 15th, 19th, and 24th amendments spell out specific reasons that can not be used to deny the right to vote, but do not establish a right to vote under all circumstances. They merely state that if there is a vote, people can't be excluded due to race, sex, or the lack of ability to pay.

"Why should I give information to you when all you want to do is find something wrong with it?"