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Voting is a fundamental human right. It saddens me that someone would describe restoring someone's voting rights as voter fraud. If anything, the disenfranchise
by curun1r 10y ago
Voting is a fundamental human right. It saddens me that someone would describe restoring someone's voting rights as voter fraud. If anything, the disenfranchisement of felons around this country is the voter fraud.
Other countries have polling places in their prisons, let alone allowing ex-convicts to vote. If there's one demographic that should be allowed their say on what society feels is legal and illegal, it's those who society has chosen to punish. Otherwise, you create the possibility of a tyranny of a minority which comprises the majority of the electorate.
- zeveb 10y ago> Voting is a fundamental human right. So is liberty, and so is life, and we deprive convicts of those rights too. > If there's one demographic that should be allowed their say on what society feels is legal and illegal, it's those who society has chosen to punish. That's a bit of a non-sequitur: why should those who have chosen to violate the social compact have a voice in it? > Otherwise, you create the possibility of a tyranny of a minority which comprises the majority of the electorate. That's also a non-sequitur: if they are disenfranchised, they're no longer part of the electorate.