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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?
I thought impisonment was the punishment.
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Was thinking a little along these lines myself when spotted this post. The problem I have is that I can always see two sides to a discussion and do agree that criminals who have committed terrible acts against the society we have founded, should not be allowed to have a voting opinion anymore. There are some prisoners however that are in there due to other types of crime, such as some pensioner who,as a protest, refused to pay their council tax. Will be many more like this I suspect, and would not object to a vote from these people. That, to me, means that the prisoners would have to be individually assessed for who can and who can't.
Just wondered if people under psychiatric care are still allowed the vote and sectioned people who have been put there for their own safety, e.g. eating disorders etc ??