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Crystal Mason: Texas woman sentenced to five years over voting error acquitted
(www.theguardian.com)
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Losing the right to vote is ridiculous.
Agreed. Felons should be allowed to vote. Pirsoners should be allowed to vote. Just because you committed a crime doesn't mean you shouldn't be allowed to participate in a democratic election. There is, as far as I can remember, nothing in the Constitution that bars felons or the incarcerated from voting.
Not to mention that people in jail waiting for trial who can't afford bail aren't allowed to vote either if the election happens while they're in jail, even though there's been no conviction.
In Germany there are only a few crimes that take away your voting rights and I am fine with these:
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Seems like a good one. We should borrow that.
I'll have you know it's called lobbying and it's perfectly legal! For some reason.
Especially when prisoners are counted toward a state's apportionment. Now you end up with evil conservative scumbags petitioning to have prisons in their states/districts so they get those extra resources, without all of those damn liberal votes.
It’s essentially the modern equivalent of the 3/5ths compromise.
They aren't even trying to hide it because you can legally use prisoners as slaves.
https://www.npr.org/podcasts/1100064032/deliberate-indifference
It’s definitely there because of the same politics.