Question Should Prisoners get the vote?

[old.Tohtori]

No I don't see what you're getting at. People in prison can't vote and shouldn't be allowed to, there is no connection with any of the other groups you've mentioned.

Yeah it was my mistake as i said on the next post.

 

[Scouse]

Human rights act should fuck off if it allows them to vote.

I refer you to my post Meg. Seriously, it's a good point and everything!

 

[Lamp]

No.

 

[Tom]

Ok, even if you're completely against it(for whatever reason)let's say prisoners are banned from voting.

What's next?

People with criminal records?
People who've had a run in with the law?
Speeding tickets?
People who live in "poor town"?

You see what i'm getting at here. Do you want to start limiting your rights?

People with criminal records have served their time and been freed.

People who have had a 'run in' are not criminals.

Speeding is not usually a serious enough offence to warrant a custodial sentence.

Living in a poor town is not a criminal offence.

People who have committed a crime rightly lose some of their rights. Its called punishment.

 

[cHodAX]

Prison is punishment by loss of liberty, one of the fundamentals of liberty is the right to choose your own leaders so by definition they should lose the right to vote once imprisoned.