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Should Prisoners Be Allowed To Vote?
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If the voting rights remain limited to prisoners with less than a year to serve, then I have no real issue with it (although I do wonder why they can't wait a year), but if the year starts to creep to be two years, and then five and so on, I would object.
There's no suggestion the time period will be amended to include longer term prisoners, but purely for the sake of the argument if it was, I would struggle with the idea of allowing people who have chosen to live outside of society's rules have a say in electing people whose job it is to make those rules.
If the voting rights remain limited to prisoners with less than a year to serve, then I have no real issue with it (although I do wonder why they can't wait a year), but if the year starts to creep to be two years, and then five and so on, I would object.
There's no suggestion the time period will be amended to include longer term prisoners, but purely for the sake of the argument if it was, I would struggle with the idea of allowing people who have chosen to live outside of society's rules have a say in electing people whose job it is to make those rules.
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Those who say prisoners should not be allowed to vote presumably are in favor of then being allowed to vote once they leave jail. So how long would you want someone to be out before they were allowed to vote again?
A day, a month, a year , 5 years? Or do you think anyone who has ever been in jail should be barred from voting for life?
A day, a month, a year , 5 years? Or do you think anyone who has ever been in jail should be barred from voting for life?
