ST. PAUL, Minn. – The Minnesota House voted 71-59 to allow felons to vote as soon as they leave prison. The bill would enfranchise about 66,000 Minnesotans. Currently a felon’s voting rights are restored only after their sentence, including probation, is complete. The bill now moves to the Senate. The change is part of a Democratic push to expand voting rights. Coincidently or not, felons are considered more Democrat in their voting inclinations. On the ioher hand Republicans, who have a shrinking voter base, had a span of objections to growing enfranchisement. These included a concern that someone who committed voter fraud would be rewarded with the right to vote again — even though voter fraud is virtually non-existent. Other GOP amendments, all of which failed, included keeping the current system in place for convictions for murder, sexual misdeeds, terroristic threats, stalking, and harassment of elected officials and police.