Or how about “it’s nice to base things on philosophical abstracts but practically speaking we can confidently say mass murderers have no useful political contributions to make.” https://twitter.com/CharlesFLehman/status/1120817158894903296 …
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One problem with the whole "let criminals vote" thing is you'd have districts where the state legislators would quite literally have supermajorities of their constituents who are actual criminals, in some cases violent criminals. That seems..... not good.
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Re: "just vote by former address" But criminality is concentrated at the pre-incarceration level as well folks! You'd still have legislators beholden to prison gangs for votes! And also, their ability to campaign to those voters would be quite limited as well.
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Sounds like a pretty good reason to start dismantling this giant carceral state that we’ve constructed
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