Nearly all county jails make incarcerated people rely on absentee ballots to vote. Voting rights organizers say that misses eligible voters, and have started pushing to set up polling places behind bars.
In theory everyone in jail as opposed to prison should get to vote since at that stage you haven’t been convicted of a crime that would justify a punishment like taking away your right to vote.
Technically they could be in jail and unable to vote becsuse of a prior felony conviction for those states that take away voting rights.
Taking voting rights from anyone, including the worst felons, is absolutely against the core idea of democracy and should not be allowed. Yes, even cannibals and mass murderers deserve the right to vote because they are part of society even when they have been restricted from interaction because of their actions.
I’m impressed as fuck that incarcerated individuals can vote in Texas. Maybe it’s non-felons but still.
In theory everyone in jail as opposed to prison should get to vote since at that stage you haven’t been convicted of a crime that would justify a punishment like taking away your right to vote.
Technically they could be in jail and unable to vote becsuse of a prior felony conviction for those states that take away voting rights.
Taking voting rights from anyone, including the worst felons, is absolutely against the core idea of democracy and should not be allowed. Yes, even cannibals and mass murderers deserve the right to vote because they are part of society even when they have been restricted from interaction because of their actions.
Haha well yes anyone in any situation could coincidentally already have had their right to vote taken away for an unrelated reason.
Definitely agree that taking away the right to vote is not an appropriate punishment.
County jails usually have a lot of pretrial detainees.