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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is there any incentive to obey laws anymore ?[/quote]
Is there anywhere in the constitution that states that if you go to prison you lose the right to vote? Serious question.[/quote]

Yes and no, thanks to the delicately worded duplicity of the 14th Amendment.

As you know, the 14th Amendment abolished slavery and Section I grants citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to African Americans and slaves who had been emancipated after the Civil War.

However, Section II of the 14th Amendment provides a cozy little loophole which states that some kinds of discrimination, [b]such as based on criminal convictions[/b], citizenship, and residence, are indeed permissible.

Couple that with the fact that state governments have the right to establish requirements for voters, voter registration, and conduct of elections and you have a perfectly prejudicial system that allows U.S. citizens to be legally disenfranchised in accordance with the Constitution.

Here's a breakdown of state-by-state voting laws for felons.

[img]https://felonvoting.procon.org/files/1-felon-voting-images/state-felon-voting-laws-july-2019.png[/img][/quote]

Didn't Virginia recently change the law giving felons the right to vote? [/quote]

NP. As seen in the graphic, VA restores voting rights to those convicted of a felony after completion of probation/etc.[/quote]

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