No citizen lose the right to vote, ever, for any reason other than no longer being a citizen.
this post was submitted on 20 Aug 2024
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Election related crimes should result in disenfranchisement. People who gerrymander districts shoujd be barred from voting or holding public office.
Nope, they, too, should be allowed to vote. We shouldn't allow any path to disenfranchisement.
What about the dead? Call me controversial, but I'd like to disenfranchise the dead
Okay, call me slightly ableist.
Treason, voter fraud at scale, insurrection/coup seem like good reasons. Anything short of that seems ridiculous.
Seems fair. If the candidate can be a felon, why not the voter?
This looks like a massive own goal for the Alabama GOP. The relevant state constitution amendment was pushed through in response to covid 19 and they way many states improved voting access during the worst of the pandemic.
It was supposed to make it harder to expand voting access but now (briefly) did the opposite. Not that it matters much on a deep red state.
To the people saying there should be no reason to lose the right to vote. I do not agree. Treason -- this should absolutely bar their right to vote, if they are not sentenced to death. So be the absolutists all you'd like, but there is a line, and a fair due process and conviction of treason is it.
I feel like there are 2 related arguments against this. One is that it could motivate political prosecution to disenfranchise people. The second is that it kind of creates a slippery slope, if treason disenfranchises you why not murder, or rape, or election fraud or whatever other crime someone considers serious enough
Anything can be used for political persecution/prosecution, that is not an argument to not do something.
And for your second argument, that’s exactly how it works in the US — felonies mean losing the vote. Not that I agree with it in all cases. And using slippery slope here is logically fallacious since I’m being specific to a single cause pointing to a single effect, whereas you’re assuming such an effect will then create further causes to it.
The point is that due process is supposed to protect against phony charges. So to me, at minimum, a conviction of treason, with fair due process, is not at all a slippery slope. And since treason is the ultimate anti-patriotic criminal act a citizen could commit, and once convicted and upheld through appeal, they should no longer be allowed to vote in the country they betrayed.
Thus, I refute the absolutists, hence my post.
So after having served your scentence, this law instates an additional penalty retroactively. Seems fair.