Man learns his votes were illegal for years (Seattle Times)

[banana republican]

Douglas Kerley has voted in more than two dozen elections since 1995 and even served as a precinct worker in the 1980s.
But until November, the 55-year-old Lynnwood man was voting illegally. 

"I shouldn't have been voting or buying hundreds of guns," he said, "but I was."
Kerley, a registered Republican who even ran a congressional campaign in 1984, said he had no idea he had cast illicit ballots in King and then Snohomish counties until about 18 months ago, when his application for a federal firearms-dealer license was denied because of a 1975 felony gun conviction.


http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002158410_felonsidebar23m.html

[proud2BlibKansan]

1. What?

An illegal Republican voter??

Surely you jest.

[NNN0LHI]

2. I am sure it was just an accident n/t

[Gman]

3. I wonder if he voted for Rossi??

HA! Bet his name doesn't show up in the GOP Sore Loserman suit.

[banana republican]

4. Isn't it a hoot!!!!

What blows me away is that he even ran for congress.

[LiberalFighter]

13. How could he not know that he couldn't run for Congress

There must be a statement that candidates must sign attesting that they have not been convicted of a felony.

Likewise on voter registration form for their state.

[bluestateguy]

5. Any law permanently disenfranchising an ex-felon I regard as illegitimate

He paid his debt to society. Once prison, parole and probation are served his debt to society is repaid. His right to vote AND to own firearms should be restored without question.

[DiverDave]

6. yeah, but only

if they register to vote repuglican.

[d.l.Green]

7. and especially if they own a lot of illegal guns!

[Orsino]

8. Well said.

If not for reasons of personal liberty, then certainly to help close one loophole the GOP machine uses for disenfranchisement.

[SoCalDem]

9. Unless their felony is for Election Fraud,

their registration restoration should be a part of their release papers. If they were convicted of election fraud, they should never again be allowed to register or vote :)

[brentspeak]

10. So if they kill someone, they should be able to later own a gun?

If I was the one writing the laws, no way.

[Igel]

11. One count, pre-1984.

Link:
http://www.aclu-wa.org/ISSUES/voting_rights/Restore.vote.html
"...request the Indeterminate Sentencing Review Board (ISRB) to restore your right to vote. To request the ISRB to restore your right, call [phone] and follow the Board’s procedures."

http://www.srb.wa.gov/restorevotingrights.html

[diamond14]

12. sooo, this reTHUGlican has been committing CRIMES for years...

violating gun control laws, illegally running for congress, illegally voting.....IMO, the BOOK should be thrown at this criminal and ALL HIS ILLEGAL WEAPONS confisgated.....likely this creep has been SELLING guns to underaged teen-agers to shoot up high schools....time to look through ALL this guy's ILLEGAL weapons purchases, and his taxes, AND his library books and VIDEOS.....


this criminal should be ARRESTED immediately, and put in jail....

[Rush1184]

14. Are we not presuming a little too much here...

[stillcool]

15. Thats right...presuming guilt only works if...

Your black, poor, or democrat. For anyone else they deserve the benefit of the doubt.

[NYC]

16. Innocent until proven indigent.

That was the saying around the Bronx County Courthouse.

[Rush1184]

17. everybody deserves the benifit of the doubt...

[JDPriestly]

18. I'll bet self-righteous Repubs.

would be shocked to learn how many felons are on their side. Read Moral Politics by George Lakoff. If he is correct in describing Republican and Democratic value systems, it is unlikely that very many felons would feel at home in the Democratic Party. There may be some, but I wouldn't expect most felons to value nurturance and empathy very highly. And they would probably never vote for the party of gun control.