Re:Trump’s Data Team Saw a Different America
by zeveb on Thursday November 10, 2016 @02:57PM
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> Voting is a fundamental human right.
So is liberty, and so is life, and we deprive convicts of those rights too.
> If there's one demographic that should be allowed their say on what society feels is legal and illegal, it's those who society has chosen to punish.
That's a bit of a non-sequitur: why should those who have chosen to violate the social compact have a voice in it?
> Otherwise, you create the possibility of a tyranny of a minority which comprises the majority of the electorate.
That's also a non-sequitur: if they are disenfranchised, they're no longer part of the electorate.
Other countries have polling places in their prisons, let alone allowing ex-convicts to vote. If there's one demographic that should be allowed their say on what society feels is legal and illegal, it's those who society has chosen to punish. Otherwise, you create the possibility of a tyranny of a minority which comprises the majority of the electorate.