How Felony Disenfranchisement Harms 56,000 North Carolinians
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- čas přidán 14. 07. 2024
- This podcast originally aired on March 3, 2023.
In 1876, North Carolina added a felony disenfranchisement provision to its state constitution with the express purpose of disenfranchising Black voters. Forward Justice Co-Director Daryl Atkinson joins to discuss how felony disenfranchisement harms communities.
Atkinson and his team were involved in a lawsuit challenging the provision. While the trial court initially struck down the provision - and returned voting rights to 56,000+ North Carolinians - the North Carolina Supreme Court overturned the ruling on April 28, 2023.
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-Inside Forward Justice’s Fight To Restore Voting Rights to 56,000 North Carolinians
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-North Carolina Supreme Court Upholds Felony Disenfranchisement Law: www.democracydocket.com/news-...
The only crimes that should prevent you from voting are 1) presenting yourself as a fake elector, 2) participating in a political coup, 3) voting in the name of the deceased, 4) intimidating voter, 5) other voting-related crimes. Anything that has nothing to do with voting crimes should not be considered.
Mark please continue fighting 🙏 for voting rights gerrymandering rights!!
Thank you Marc and Daryl for fighting for true democracy!! ⚖️ ⚖️ 🌊 🌊
I am dumbfounded by NC Supreme Court's decision and the persistence of such state laws.
Anyone in prison can run for, and get elected, to office. Yet they can't vote. If someone serves their time, they should have 100% of their rights restored when released. This is a black on my adopted state of NC.
Agreed! What happened to paid debt to society? Voting rights should be reinstated.
That's unconstitutional to have to pay an average of $2,000.xx to get your right to vote back!
Voting is a right even a duty in every democracy. Withholding that right to vote is not freedom. Come on America do better.
I still believe that voting should be compulsory for all citizens, like Australia.
Literal taxation without representation. If you’re not gonna let me vote, then why the fuck do I have to pay taxes?
DC and Puerto Rico wants to know that too!
@@sassysaint3096 So true! ❤️
In Canada every incarcerated citizens can vote as long as they are Canadian. Prisons have voting stations. Come on America do better.
Wow!!!! How awesome 🎉
Canada has a much lower percentage of the population imprisoned than the US has, as well. The US seems to make an effort to convict more people for more crimes and sentence them for longer terms compared to Canada.
Hard to believe that the US used to actually be voting monitors for emerging democracies. How far we haven’t really come. We are a legend in our own minds.
VOTE BLUE AND KEEP AMERICA GREAT
how is this going to change in 2024 voting NC 🗳 gerrymandering for the Minorities we need everyone to vote 🗳
Bless 🙏 you Marc thanks for having him on history matters 🙏🇺🇸⚖️
Thank you both! Love to hear from voter rights heroes! You guys are warriors!
Excellent work!!!Hero!!! Blessings to Humanity 💗
If the current legislators don't have the rasist intent of their predecesors, they should be willing to correct the laws.
Very insightful and meaningful discussion. Thank You both very much.
It saddens me that there are lawyers who have to spend their entire careers just trying to get justice for disenfranchised voters. What does this say about our country? It’s not a pretty picture. It goes against what our country stands for. That said, I applaud these lawyers for the work they are doing. I pray in my lifetime I will see black ppl treated as equal citizens. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Thank-you Mark! I love the podcast because you always have such important information!
Its about equality and justice.
Hi! Democracy Docket✋😊
Keep up the much needed legal and knowledge expertise in law, as well as the Constitution.
God Bless.
1-19-24
Marc and Daryl you've enlightened my voews of how divided our country is , and now more so when trump woke up the sleeping dragon , Vote Blue 💙
Thank you
Amen!!
Good, informative discussion. Thank you.
Good job man , a good family is important .
Thanks Marc! Excellent as always.
Do I hear a baby , baby ,baby loving this show .
Great episode, Marc and Daryl. Thank you for all that you do. 💐🙌🏽
In NC all rights, except the right to own a gun, be in possession of a gun, are restored once the offender completes serving sentence and parole. Look up restoration of rights statute.
Sir, Mr. Atkinson, you are a remarkable person. Thank you very much for your work. Thanks, Mark, for finding and promoting people like Mr. Atkinson.
Thank you both for the updates
Great interview, thank you.
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Informative conversation. 💙🧘🏼♂️
2 people I have profound respect for.
Wonderful, informative discussion. Thank you both for working towards a fairer voting system. God bless. 🙏🇺🇸
Anyone who had paid the price for their crime must be allowed to vote and not continue to be punished by voter suppression.
We the People
When laws are created to disenfranchise blacks, it would be great if those blacks became activists working across the state to get democrats to vote and to get like minded people registeted to vote. Explain them of the need to push Republicans out of state legislators so laws can be changed to benefit all citizens, not just whites.
One should note the correlation between the classification of crimes as felonies/ demographics. DeSantis attached a stipulation of the payment of fines/fees after an initiative passed to restore voting rights of felons, without specifying the amount of payment due. It's similar to a voting rights tax. Bloomberg established a fund to help qualified individuals pay off monetary barriers.
Very good interview!
I was born in North Carolina and after having lived there for the first forty years of my life I just want to thank Daryl for his hard work. Just hearing the name "Jesse Helms" raises my blood pressure! Helms was of the George Wallace/Strom Thurmond" school of overt racism. The sad fact is that the areas that Daryl spoke of are the more progressive areas of North Carolina. When you get to areas east of Raleigh, like Smithfield, things get real Klan=ish, real fast. People don't realize just how much courage and resolve people like Daryl have to have so that they can fight this fight. I've got my Visa card out right now. Thank you Daryl and please extend my thanks to your colleagues.
To see in a matter of a few years the sneaky, undermining of America is heartbreaking.
I need both voting and 2nd amendment rights restored. Don't tell me I deserve "some" constitutional rights but not all!
Great show!
One of the things that can be done is to change the language of Section five of the Voting Rights Act to apply clear across the board to all States instead of being specific to certain States or conditions, and then reenact it after the Justices objections have been removed.
Very informative.
When I was in school, I remember living through the chaos and instruction regarding people's fights for civil rights and voting rights. As a person who lived in PA, it gave me a sense of self respect to live in a country where human rights were upheld as a beacon of hope and freedom. Now in my 60s, that feeling has diminished the more personal rights and freedoms are being whittled away by hurtful people unashamed to go backwards towards bigoted, unamerican, unkind policies of the past. The USA was a government of hope and progress forward, not backwardness. Changed laws and policies break my heart as I see and hear the injustices. Today this wonderful country is experiencing inhumane treatment of our fellow man. I subscribe to the thinking of the Scriptures which tell us that God is love and if we don't love people we see, we can't love God whom we don't see with our eyes. Love God, our neighbors as ourselves. These thoughts are the best, greatest, highest principles for us all to live by. Shame on some people in powerful government positions who've turned their backs on uplifting others as much as possible. To see in a matter of a few years because of people like defendant Trump is so nauseating. Thankfully, my conscience and heart can't be forced to follow all the hateful rules of those people. I'm saddened for the trauma your guest suffered. But I'm glad to learn of how he was able to reclaim his dignity. Keeping one's integrity to God and the ways of love will direct us to everlasting happiness and peace.🙏
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TN just did the same thing.
Extremely informative, though I would like to know what happenes in FL.
56,0000 ! That's nearly the same amount of people who voted for Trump in the Iowa caucuses.
Honest? Follow the money! Read people? Why not? Unborn? Why not?
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What is Demorcy?
Buncombe County in the mountains was also gerrymandered like crazy. The Warren Wilson College Campus was even gerrymandered. The campus should have been avoided but republicans split the campus mailboxes. That’s how surgical the legislature got.
Please suggest to your guest today to put something other than a white wall behind him on the video. With his white shirt it is too much. I loved hearing about what he knows about the despicable history of voter suppression in the South but watching the screen was a little hard.😊
_‘No taxation without representation!’_
If these clearly racist state legislatures don't want their non-white citizens to vote, then those non-white citizens have every right to be free from state taxation and other state imposed levies-period.
I'm glad I live in a country (Canada) that doesn't discriminate against ANY eligible _elector,_ except on the basis of age (you must be 18-years of age or older to vote). Even citizens who are incarcerated in federal or provincial institutions can vote by special ballot in all federal and provincial elections in Canada-it is a constitutionally guaranteed charter right, and NO government that wishes to survive its mandate to govern dares to commit political suicide to strip a minority of citizens of their charter rights.
_“The land of the free”_ is so backwards it isn't even funny any more.
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_“Let not anyone pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing. He is not a good man who, without a protest, allows wrong to be committed in his name, and with the means which he helps to supply, because he will not trouble himself to use his mind on the subject.”_ -John Stuart Mill (1867)
Voting in America is like driving a car: if you want to go _forward,_ select *“D”;* if you want to go _backward,_ select *“R”.* You won't get to a destination, by staying in neutral.
I'm fine with felony disenfranchisement when it comes to Trump being taken off the ballot in 27 states if he becomes a convicted felon.
Thank you