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Well, if we're going to start saying who does and doesn't have the right to vote, I say we keep the idiotic women who use abortion as birth control out of the voting booth. They're not smart enough to take a pill or stick a diaphragm in, why on earth should they have the right to vote? (No, I don't mean women who have an abortion because of an unplanned pregnancy, I mean those who get abortions over and over again and NEVER use birth control.)
Obviously this will never happen, but that's how silly the not-being-allowed-to-vote thing sounds to me. I honestly never knew that, and think it's ridiculous. If you've done your time and paid your debt, you should be allowed to vote. (Not to mention I'm going to wager that there are former prisoners who are HELLA more informed about the issues/candidates up for election than the average voter.)
If you're going to make a person keep paying and keep paying even after they finish a sentence that society has deemed "payment" why even let them out of jail in the first place? The reason the recidivism rate is so high is because we make it so hard for convicts to reassimilate into society. If we as a society don't believe that people can be "rehabilitated" we should probably stop playing that we do.
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