[WillowTheWhisp]

Originally Posted by garinda

If we are to decide who has, or hasn't the right to vote, where will it end? Unemployed people, the very elderly, the illiterate?

If? At present prisoners are not permitted to vote and as far as I'm aware never have been allowed to vote so where does the "if" come into it? Decisions have already been made in the past and I think we should stick with them. Fair enough there may well be criminals on the outside who have never been caught and who vote at present but that doesn't convince me that it's better for all criminals to have a vote. If criminals are allowed to vote don't you fear that they may vote for people who law abiding citizens would rather not have in power?