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Politics : Canadian Political Free-for-All -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ichy Smith who wrote (7537)	1/15/2006 9:43:24 PM
From: Id_Jit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 37496

Gulo My position is that the right to vote is not a right that the government grants to it citizens and is therefore not a right that the government can take away, prisoner or not… Peter I think the idea of prison is that you lose your privileges when you are incarcerated. You become a de facto ward of the Crown. So that theoretically by being convicted you become the equivalent of a child again. How about a middle of the road approach? NO polling stations in prisons. EDIT: And no voting by mail within prisons either! Dunno fer sure that this still applies, but not so long ago, prisoners with good behavior would qualify for “A day at the Mall, including McDonalds”. If voting was that important to those incarcerated, then they could use a portion of their earned freedom, say a half or a quarter day to ‘leave’ the prison to vote. A prisoner that could not qualify for a ‘partial day pass’ wouldn’t get to vote. A prisoner that felt that it was that important to vote and wished to use some of his/her banked freedom time could vote. The fact that a prisoner used some of his/her freedom to actually vote would be notated on their prison record, and that could be considered by the parole board. Id