Ex-con here. I served my time. Why can't I vote.

Because this:

Gta, drugs, burglary, grand theft, the list goes on. I've been to prison 3 times. But since then things have changed in my life. I have a wife, a beautiful baby boy, 2 jobs, and a mortgage. People can change. I am proof.

I bet you said this the first two times too.

You broke into peoples' homes? Are you fucking kidding me? Do you realize how low of a move this is?

Our country is a community and it looks like you violated the trust of that community a whole bunch of times. If it was an "I screwed up one time and now regret it" sort of thing, then I could feel some remorse for you, but you went to prison THREE TIMES!

THREE!

Why didn't you figure it out the first two rounds?

So no, you wronged the community, and not letting you vote is how the community tells you that they don't like that. The community putting you in prison 3 times was 3 times that they threw their hands up and said "well we can't deal with him anymore at all."

The community is saying that they can deal with having you around again, maybe, but they still don't trust you.

Go get some community service done. You definitely owe it to the people you wronged.

(Prison isn't paying your debt. Prison is your exile from the people you wronged.)

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edit: I can't respond to everybody, but I want to point something out: I'm not saying that OP should NEVER be allowed to vote, I'm exp…