I think felons should be able to vote
I think this policy strengthens institutional racism?
Matty Poon Sat 6 Dec 2014 2:28AM
^ Agreed. Unless you denounce your rights to being a citizen of a nation, you, free or imprisoned, still are owed the rights and responsibilities of being a citizen
Logal Mon 8 Dec 2014 1:39AM
Agreed.
It's hard to have faith in a system that one can't be part of.
And yeah, a system probably works best when everybody can have faith in it.
Perhaps voting-rights-for-all (including felons or ex-felons) might be advanced as the present-day fight to make people count as whole people, not as "3/5" of a person....
Poll Created Mon 8 Dec 2014 5:06AM
new national law: suffrage for all, including felons Closed Thu 11 Dec 2014 4:04AM
Proposal to have our Congresspeople write a bill and pass it as a new national act that gives the right to vote ("suffrage") to everyone at all stages of being involved in the court system & prison system.
The possibility is to use the current political moment to pass such a bill, akin to the way major national acts were passed in the wake of the assassinations of Kennedy and King.
This proposal is designed to build into the system (of both politics & prisons) a reason for new faith in the system (& swooping past various disenfranchisement efforts designed to shave away votes) in a relatively non-threatening stance - compared to riots, it's about Congressional votes and about effects that can sound theoretical about the future.
Results
| Results | Option | % of points | Voters | |
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Agree | 100.0% | 1 |
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| Abstain | 0.0% | 0 | ||
| Disagree | 0.0% | 0 | ||
| Block | 0.0% | 0 | ||
| Undecided | 0% | 9 |
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1 of 10 people have participated (10%)
Logal · Fri 5 Dec 2014 8:41PM
Voices of people with felony experience are as essential as as voices of people without felony experience.