Many speculations are made when it comes to allowing ex-felons or felons to vote. Felons should have the right to vote because everyone’s vote counts when it comes to electing a new president for the country. Felons are a part of the country they should be permitted to vote all the least. To some, felons or ex-felons should not be allowed the right to vote. This is because many people believe that felons have gone against their own country and defiled their country’s name. So the ones, who think felon’s or ex-felons should not vote, hold a grudge and begin to despise the idea of allowing a felon to vote. People want to continue with felon disenfranchisement and exclude felons from their own country. Although felons seem to have no morals. In all honesty, they do and they should be allowed at least one right that all Americans are able to share with one another.
Through a court of governor’s decision a felon’s vote can be restored, the following states that restore are; Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Iowa, Kentucky, Mississippi, Nevada, Virginia, and Wyoming. Although in Arizona a felon must complete a prison sentence to have the right to vote restored, if a felon is a repeat offender then the felon must be pardoned before the restoration to vote (ncsl). In addition, Virginia governor, Terry McAuliffe, restored 200,000 ex-felons right to vote once again
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states — are prohibited from voting because of current or previous felony convictions. Nearly 150 years after Reconstruction, when felony disenfranchisement laws were first widely implemented throughout the South to intentionally reduce the electoral strength of former slaves, 40 percent of these individuals are African-American — meaning that nearly one in 13 African-American adults are currently ineligible to cast a ballot. In three states — Florida, Kentucky and Virginia — that ratio is one in five.