Originally posted by phillipj
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Do you support the right to vote for violent felons, like terrorists and sexual predators, while they are serving their sentences? Yes or no, explain. Don't hide behind "it's debatable" or the Slippery Slope Fallacy.
If you are convicted of a violent crime (terrorism, sexual assault, armed robbery, etc), you should lose your right to vote while in prison. While you're in prison, you still haven't finished "serving your debt to society." Once you have served your debt to society, sure you earn it back. Even if you go to jail for unpaid parking tickets, you don't get to vote while behind bars.
I'm still baffled, there are some countries where the citizens can't vote if they haven't lived in the country for X period of time? But yet, you'd be cool with guy who raped a girl down the street getting to vote while in prison.
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