The law makes sense. If someone is a convicted felon, changes their name to avoid the inevitable Google searches, and decides to run for office, that former name absolutely should be disclosed.
What’s weird here is the limit of “past 5 years” and “excluding marriage.”
So totally cool for a felon to change their name MORE than 5 years ago, or, simply get married, no disclosure required.
So, what you’re saying is… the law actually doesn’t make sense. It should be that if they were a convicted felon, then that should be disclosed along with their old name. All of the other conditions here seem unnecessary unless we want to include name changes in general, which then they need to add a space on the actual form to include this.
The law makes sense. If someone is a convicted felon, changes their name to avoid the inevitable Google searches, and decides to run for office, that former name absolutely should be disclosed.
What’s weird here is the limit of “past 5 years” and “excluding marriage.”
So totally cool for a felon to change their name MORE than 5 years ago, or, simply get married, no disclosure required.
So what even is the purpose of the law?
So, what you’re saying is… the law actually doesn’t make sense. It should be that if they were a convicted felon, then that should be disclosed along with their old name. All of the other conditions here seem unnecessary unless we want to include name changes in general, which then they need to add a space on the actual form to include this.
Looking at you Ted Cruz… the zodiac killer
Whos that? Do you mean Texas politician Rafael Cruz?
Nimarata Randhawa Haley must be shitting her pants…
I think it would make more sense if you either
a) couldn’t change your name as a convicted felon
b) your new name would be updated in the records maybe?
That you’re not a recently convicted felon, I suppose.
Doesn’t being a convicted felon disqualify you from running in any case - or is that just voting?
Voting, not running, and not even always voting. It varies state by state.
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.
To be clear, there is no US policy on this, each state has their own rules.
Leonard Peltier, for example, has run for president from prison.