Arguments Against Disenfranchisement

Disenfranchisement is the ultimate way to take away someone’s rights. If they cannot vote, they have no way to express what they want in this country, and that can have a major impact when 2.5% of the United States voting population cannot vote because of it. The United States has a higher percentage of people incarcerated than any other country, and it could be changing the direction our country is going in to keep ex-felons from voting. I think voting is a right people in our country deserve, and when a person has served their sentence and is readjusting to the normal world, they should be allowed that right again. Despite the crimes they have been involved in, their beliefs are still valid beliefs of citizens of our country.
Voting is about what all people in our country want, despite any past mistakes they have made. As hard as it might be to accept that people have committed crimes that hurt someone and breached the law, it is essential that citizens of this country only look at each other as other citizens, and not …show more content…
People believe that by committing a felony the right to vote is lost. They have proven they do not respect the law. The problem is that without giving this right again, it alienates these citizens so that they do not respect the law and do not fully rehabilitate. It is claimed to be a decision of justice, yet it is proven to affect people racially, as nearly one in thirteen African Americans of voter age cannot vote because of this. It means that entire groups of people are not entirely represented in our votes, and the needs of United States citizens are not even being recorded, which gives a reasonable explanation for at least some of the widespread dissatisfaction of our country. When so many people of our country are not participating fully in a right of our country by law, it is no wonder America is divided and aggrieved in these