TALKLEFT RESPONDS to my earlier advice-for-Democrats post with a further suggestion: let felons vote.

I have an elaboration on that: don’t have so many felonies. The justification for depriving felons of civil rights, like voting or owning guns, was originally that felonies were such serious crimes that the felon’s life was ordinarily forfeit anyway. But now felonies are designated very promiscuously — downloading files from the Internet? Filling in a pothole in your driveway that turns out to be a “wetland?”

Those things shouldn’t be felonies. To my mind, imposing civil rights deprivations for such minor, mala prohibita matters is a due process violation. Adopt that approach, and you don’t have to worry about felons being deprived of voting rights unless they’re murderers, robbers, rapists, etc. You know: real criminals.