Is this what the voters right changes are changing?

The laws about voting rights vary by state to state, and in fact not all states disenfranchise convicted felons, although most of them do.

No, whatever changes have been made, nationally, to voting rights, it is not effecting the voting rights of felons.

The fact of how many felons are non-white is utterly irrelevant, because there clearly is no system of quotas to require that there be some particular number of them who get convicted. Each convict in jail is there because of his or her own particular circumstances, not because there is anybody "in charge" who is trying to send "disproportionately" more minorities to jail.

For the most part, the groups with higher convictions are guilty of their own crimes - but what people are failing to grasp is that the system singles out some groups more than others in the conviction rate and felony sentencing, and is thereby systematically disenfranchising some groups more than others.

On the scale of things, I think the crimes being committed are generally the bigger problem though. Tackle those, and the felony charges go away. Who we elect won't change that.

Voting rights are changing for eligible American citizens. This is not about felons.

This is about many of the elderly who were not born in hospitals and because of this, they don't have birth certificates to even get IDs.

This is about voting officials who can move voting polls and change voting times without warning the voters.

This is about voting officials who can shut down a voting place when there are people still waiting in line to vote.

This is about voting officials not having enough voting machines in certain districts so these lines can be long and then they can shut the voting place down.

Wake up, America.

In many states if you are convicted of drunk driving more than 3 times you are also a felon and not allowed to vote.

Article XV Section 1 in the Constitution of the United States is very clear. In reading the constitutional rights that we have as a free society, it looks like, if you are not locked up, if you have served your sentence given to you by the courts and are released as serving your time, you can vote. However, "citizens of the United States" are not illegal aliens or citizens of other countries . . . don't get it twisted. The Constitution reads as follows:

"The right of citizens of the United States shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude."

a felony conviction takes away your right to vote,,it is a deterrent to keep people from committing crimes, a persons color does not decide if they are going to commit a crime the persons character decides and people with low education,, black , white or brown commit crimes.

"I didn't know you couldn't vote if you have a felony conviction!"

Your ignorance is not our fault.