Imagine someone finishes a ten-year sentence, pays their debt, gets a job, pays taxes, and then gets told they're not quite a citizen anymore. That's not justice, that's a permanent scarlet letter. The whole point of prison is to pay a debt to society, not to be banished from it forever. If we trust felons to walk our streets, hold jobs, and raise families, we can trust them to cast a ballot. Voting isn't a prize for the pure; it's how we keep the government honest. Take it away, and you're saying some people never earn their way back in.

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