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Alabama blocked a man from voting because he owed $4
- jsjddbbwj 7y agoRacially biased system? Was he fined $4 for being black?
- tstrimple 7y agoThe criminal justice system in this country is racially biased. Any fines which prevent voting rights based off of a racially biased system will also reflect that racial bias.
- mamon 7y agoIt doesn't really matter how much he owed, and for what reason. Believe it or not, my country has a poll stations even in prisons and psychiatric hospitals, because every citizen has a right to vote. EDIT: no, not babies. Every citizen over 18 years old. Point is: no one can be stripped of this right.
- typescriptfan1 7y agoEven babies? (To illustrate the extreme end of the spectrum.)
- randyrand 7y agoNot sure why he's downvoted. It's reasonable to question whether 18 years old is the correct voting restriction.
- grawprog 7y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_age https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_age The lowest voting age globally is 16, a quick search found this. Asking if babies can vote is being facetious.
- giggly_gopher 7y agoThis is not entirely true. Seehttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disfranchisement https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disfranchisement
- jdsully 7y agoIt's true for Israel, Canada, and numerous other countries. I don't see what grounds you have for contradicting OP, especially since we don't even know what country he or she is in.
- Noumenon72 7y agoHe owed $5,670.57, but most of it was the kind of debt that isn't supposed to prevent you from voting. Could be a screwup, could be a subtle screw-you to poor people. In the first case the racial bias here is that black people don't always have the clout to get this kind of technical screw-up changed. Good for him for going to the media to fix it. Or maybe the policy was read that way purposely without regard for the poor/undeserving. I don't want to be too trusting.
- masonic 7y agoCkickbait title. He wasn't disenfranchised because he "owed $4" (or any given amount); he was disenfranchised because he is a felon who had not made restitution. His state, to its credit, provides a path to reenfranchisement simply by repaying his victims; he just hadn't completed that process.
- lowdose 7y ago4 dollar democracy. It is all a show to get people to pay their taxes. I have noticed a pattern in all the versions of the human experiment. The man says give me your money because than I will do X. After some time X is not relevant or mentioned by the man himself and because the man now has a gigantic cashflow he also has the means to defend what he think is his share of everything.