Voting right restoration process too difficult? Tough!

As reported here, the "do-gooders" are complaining that the felon voter restoration process is "too difficult". My response? Tough.

"Keeping people out of the loop, keeping people isolated from the larger community just
creates more prisoners," said Monifa Bandele, national field director for
Right to Vote, a New York-based advocacy group.

Sorry, Monifa, but that's wrong. Committing crimes creates more prisoners. If you want to stay "in the loop", not be "isolated from the larger community", and want to keep your right to vote, don't commit a felony. It's that simple.

I believe that if you are convicted of a felony, you should have to "jump through hoops" (as many as possible, too), in order for you to be included in the larger, law-abiding, community. The right to vote should be reserved only for those who obey the laws, not break them.