Underemployed biologist and creator of the Para-Imperium setting. Currently writing the webcomic "Joanna: Ghost Hunter."
most countries in the world allow prisoners to vote unless their voting rights have specifically been taken away as part of their sentence (usually because the crime in question specifically involved fucking with elections, and even then it's pretty exceptional) - the US is one of the exceptions, alongside Australia, New Zealand and India
shockingly, most of the world has not legalized crime
I actually believe that is the argument they use, yes
iirc, wasn't the argument historically because post-slavery, there was the provision that prisoners could be forced to work, and then cops basically just arrested black people for any reason for labor, then of course they didn't want 'criminals' to vote
(double-check me on this, my brain could be blurring things)
The first part was definitely true, things like 'not having a job' and 'leaving a job without your employer's permission" were crimes
Isn't this one of the ways they pack districts? Like, have prisons in largely conservative counties filled with people who can't vote but still count towards population for representation?
There’s also the implicit equation of law and morality underlying the “criminals only want to vote so they can make [violent] crime legal” argument. Being transgender might as well be a crime in several states, but one would hardly take issue with people voting to change that.
also the UK! this fucking country. actually maybe that's where the others get it from
