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packman

(16,296 posts)
Fri Jul 15, 2016, 09:12 PM Jul 2016

Kentucky idiots aren't allowed to vote

From Voting -

Every citizen of the United States of the age of eighteen years who has resided in the state one year, and in the county six months, and the precinct in which he offers to vote sixty days next preceding the election, shall be a voter in said precinct and not elsewhere but the following persons are excepted and shall not have the right to vote.

1. Persons convicted in any court of competent jurisdiction of treason, or felony, or bribery in an election, or of such high misdemeanor as the General Assembly may declare shall operate as an exclusion from the right of suffrage, but persons hereby excluded may be restored to their civil rights by executive pardon.

2. Persons who, at the time of the election, are in confinement under the judgment of a court for some penal offense.

3. Idiots and insane persons.


Text as Ratified on: November 8, 1955


http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/legresou/constitu/145.htm

Seems New Mexico and Ohio also has this law on their books.

But, but , but we allow Republicans to vote. This IS NOT fair.

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Kentucky idiots aren't allowed to vote (Original Post) packman Jul 2016 OP
If we have that law in Ohio how did we get Kasich? n/t doc03 Jul 2016 #1
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