tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post222134078108174115..comments2024-03-25T20:06:39.794-05:00Comments on Grits for Breakfast: 'Where should inmates be counted for redistricting?Gritsforbreakfasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10152152869466958902noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-66698484522512819532010-10-20T11:46:23.497-05:002010-10-20T11:46:23.497-05:0011:04, felons can't vote until they're com...11:04, felons can't vote until they're completely "off paper." This discussion revolves around couning people still in prison, which means we're not talking about what happens to folks "after completing [their] sentence."Gritsforbreakfasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10152152869466958902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-22408111894298792632010-10-20T11:33:45.493-05:002010-10-20T11:33:45.493-05:00Anon 11:04,
Unborn children will get to vote in 1...Anon 11:04,<br /><br />Unborn children will get to vote in 18+ years so let's count them too! <br />What about illegals? They may get papers one day and also be elible. <br /><br />I mean who cares about exercising common sense.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-17049182393006051282010-10-20T11:04:48.470-05:002010-10-20T11:04:48.470-05:00Actually a felon can vote in Texas.. Do your homew...Actually a felon can vote in Texas.. Do your homework people! <br />"In Texas, a convicted felon regains the right to vote after completing his or her sentence. Therefore, once you have completed the punishment phase (including any term of incarceration, parole, or supervision, or completed a period of probation ordered by the court), you would be eligible to register and vote in the state of Texas." <br /><br />Let me guess we are going to start counting them as 2/3 of a person too?? I mean really people, it is 2010.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-68323713797592704372010-10-20T06:26:18.063-05:002010-10-20T06:26:18.063-05:00Not just public spending, Sunray, but even more so...Not just public spending, Sunray, but even more so representation. If 10% of a rural district is prisoners, 90 voters in that district have the same voting power as 100 in a district with no prison. In practice this props up rural districts that otherwise would be ceding political clout to the cities.<br /><br />As a practical matter, as mentioned in the post, there aren't any grants divvied up by population at the county level that are effected. The issue is redistricting.Gritsforbreakfasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10152152869466958902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-50038650805356628762010-10-20T00:29:39.954-05:002010-10-20T00:29:39.954-05:00It's not just about voting, it's about art...It's not just about voting, it's about artificially inflating the size of a community which then leads to public spending based on inaccurate figures. Public spending = your taxes. More of your money gets spent on small rural areas where hardly anyone else lives that is not connected in some way to TDCJ (Anderson county is the best example, particularly the 3 horse settlement of Tennessee Colony), instead of in the more populated areas where the money is usually more needed and better spent.sunray's wenchhttp://www.helium.com/items/1653749-parent-in-prisonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-1567492348872422522010-10-19T23:58:50.689-05:002010-10-19T23:58:50.689-05:00well i think if they can't vote! they DON'...well i think if they can't vote! they DON'T COUNT! you can't have it both ways. either they are a part of this society and can vote...or they are not and therefore should not be considered in the count of it!rodsmithnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-69750761803133976682010-10-19T22:39:40.689-05:002010-10-19T22:39:40.689-05:00There are people starving in the world and we'...There are people starving in the world and we're worried about what? Shameful.Eric Vincentnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-80184128535198254942010-10-19T18:41:38.972-05:002010-10-19T18:41:38.972-05:00they can't vote in texas (felons) so why does ...they can't vote in texas (felons) so why does it matter where they live?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com