A NY lawmaker said that allowing voting from prison is "insulting" to law enforcement. So I reached out to prosecutors & DOCs in Maine & Vermont, which enable prison voting, to ask about that. And received some powerful replies. Check it out! And thread.https://theappeal.org/politicalreport/bill-voting-rights-in-prison-new-york-vermont-maine/ …
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But this is key: DAs or DOCs in ME & VT are interesting not bc they have special say. On the contrary. What they signal is the gap between a system like NY, that sets them up as gatekeepers of voting rights, & one like VT's, where public officials don't get to police who votes.
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Each time DAs decide whether to charge someone with a felony, or whether to offer someone a deal that avoids prison, or how long a sentence to seek, they shift the voting public. And we know such decisions systematically skew against people of color. https://theappeal.org/politicalreport/bill-voting-rights-in-prison-new-york-vermont-maine/ …pic.twitter.com/M55WSiUCHW
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That power validates those who see people in prison as vanquished adversaries to be cut off from the world. But multiple officials in ME & VT cast voting as a link between incarcerated people & the world beyond the prison. A way to fight civil death. https://theappeal.org/politicalreport/bill-voting-rights-in-prison-new-york-vermont-maine/ …pic.twitter.com/jFYkxIFomT
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Voting is a right and duty of citizenship. It should not be abridged under any circumstances. In the US, a prisoner has the constitutional right to marry but not to vote. Why?
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