Originally Posted by
Barry Shnikov
You could commit a crime leading to a six month sentence. You will serve three. During those three months, there is a general election. You cannot vote, yet you will soon be back in the community, without having had any opportunity to exercise your democratic rights and there'll be no further opportunity for another 5 years.
However, someone convicted a couple of months before or after you, and sentenced to the same offence, will still be able to vote.
Isn't it clear that this is unfair - one person is punished for the same crime, or at least by the same sentence, gets to vote and another doesn't?
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