Whoever is able to pick and choose who votes will determine who gets elected. America's Second Lady Tipper Gore has declared mental health the focus of her concern. She has also acknowledged taking medication for a serious mental problem herself, but has declined press requests to identify her diagnosis or the drug she has been using. This seemed a purely humane effort until the Empowerment Project was revealed. An estimated 5.6 million Americans have serious mental illnesses, according to the National Institute of Mental Health.
Democrats enthusiastically support efforts to let convicted felons vote.
Thus far only four states New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine, and Massachusetts grant prison inmates this privilege. Fourteen states deny the vote for life to felons, even after their release. Thirty-two states prohibit voting by those on parole, as the Washington Post reported last February 22, and 29 ban voting by offenders on probation. Worse than unfair, liberal Democrats argue, this is racist. Because a disproportionate share of convicted felons are black, such laws disenfranchise blacks.