it. After you are released your rights as a citizen should be fully restored. In the hypothetical you offered where one seems to have negotiated a payment as an alternative to additional prison time, I can see the argument where since said payment has in effect replaced your physical confinement, you should have to pay before your rights are restored. However, I disagree with that argument. Once youve regained your physical rights you should also have your civil rights. Failure to fulfill the financial obligations of your sentence should result in additional charges and possible additional time not perpetual disenfranchisement.

Ones constitutional rights should not depend on their ability to pay any sum of money to the government. I disagree with felony disenfranchisement at all. So the assertion that you cant vote until youve paid various administrative fees often associated with legal proceedings is even more unjust.