State Of Texas Argumentative Analysis
The State of Texas is known for their strict rules on voting rights for convicts these including those who are currently incarcerated and those individuals who are released, but on parole. However, ex-offenders who have completed their probation and parole regain their voting rights but would have to re-register. I believe the voting rights for prisoners and ex-convicts should be reformed and changed in the State of Texas. The reason I stand by this is because they’re still citizens of the United States of America.
Convicts should have the right to vote because whoever is elected in office determines their conditions in and out of jail. It is a simple logic that every citizen should have the right to vote whether local or federal. Like a citizenship a person’s right to vote is a birthright and not a privilege. Your right to vote should not just end because you’re incarcerated the reason being whoever is elected in office determines your well being whether in the prison or out. Justice Earl Warren wrote it best in the 1958 case Trop v. Dalles, “Citizenship is not a right that expires upon misbehavior” (Brettschneider 2016).
Not only are convicts that are incarcerated not allowed to vote in the state of Texas also those who served their time and are out on probation and paroles are still stripped of their civil rights. These individuals served …show more content…
Majority of convicts that are currently incarcerated are minorities. In 2005 out of 100,000 incarcerated 667 were white, 3162 were African American, and 830 were Hispanic (Mauer and King 2007,6). If convicts incarcerated were given the right to vote it would increase voting for minorities and minorities tend to vote for Democratic Party. This would change a Republican Texas state into a Democrat Texas
Convicts should have the right to vote because whoever is elected in office determines their conditions in and out of jail. It is a simple logic that every citizen should have the right to vote whether local or federal. Like a citizenship a person’s right to vote is a birthright and not a privilege. Your right to vote should not just end because you’re incarcerated the reason being whoever is elected in office determines your well being whether in the prison or out. Justice Earl Warren wrote it best in the 1958 case Trop v. Dalles, “Citizenship is not a right that expires upon misbehavior” (Brettschneider 2016).
Not only are convicts that are incarcerated not allowed to vote in the state of Texas also those who served their time and are out on probation and paroles are still stripped of their civil rights. These individuals served …show more content…
Majority of convicts that are currently incarcerated are minorities. In 2005 out of 100,000 incarcerated 667 were white, 3162 were African American, and 830 were Hispanic (Mauer and King 2007,6). If convicts incarcerated were given the right to vote it would increase voting for minorities and minorities tend to vote for Democratic Party. This would change a Republican Texas state into a Democrat Texas