Felon voting rights issue may spur lawsuit from GOP

[Blue Gardener]

DES MOINES — Iowa Senate Co-president Jeff Lamberti, R-Ankeny, said Friday that Republicans might sue Gov. Tom Vilsack to stop his planned executive order that would make it easier for convicted felons to restore their voting rights.

"It could be legal action against the executive order or legislative action down the road," he said, interviewed on the Iowa Public Television program "Iowa Press."

Lamberti said the Iowa GOP and several other groups are looking for the best way to fight the plan, which may include seeking an injunction to stop Vilsack from his scheduled signing of the order on the Fourth of July.

http://www.qctimes.net/articles/2005/06/25/news/state/doc42bcdf2322f7b771419515.txt

These people have served their sentences, let them vote.

[Gothmog]

1. GOP does not want to enfranchise people

Allowing felons to have restored voting rights is not in the best interest of the GOP. They want the vote restricted to while males if at all possible just like in the good old days.

[jody]

2. Still, I'm against executive orders that make law. That's a legislative

function and supposedly protected by our Constitution that says "The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government".

I agree with your point but the people's legislative representatives should restore civil rights where appropriate, not a governor.

[AtLiberty]

3. Yet it's perfectly okay to hire felons with multiple convictions...

...in computer fraud (ie: planting back doors) to program voting machine software...