Vanessa Joy was ruled ineligible under a state law that requires prospective candidates to put their former names on their candidate petitions.
  • jordanlund
    80·
    10 months ago

    Voting, not running, and not even always voting. It varies state by state.

    • WaxedWookie
      31·
      9 months ago

      Yikes - that really highlights the US’s priorities…

      If you’re a felon, you can’t represent yourself, but if you’re a felon with money, you can represent everyone.

      No taxation without representation, and no slavery… but felons aren’t real people.

      Private companies profit from confining people as cheaply as possible and exploiting their slave labour - all above board.

      The land of the free has nearly a quarter of the world’s prison population… but only ~4% of the world’s people.

      • jordanlund
        20·
        9 months ago

        To be clear, there is no US policy on this, each state has their own rules.