(09-23-2020, 04:27 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(09-23-2020, 03:33 PM)Lucky2Last Wrote: What's with this idea that EVERY person should vote? Part of the problem with our current system is the MASSIVE amounts of pandering directed towards stupid people. It's good that there's a massive segment of our population that doesn't want to vote. They probably shouldn't. I am not saying you take away their right, but I am saying maybe we shouldn't encourage it. If a person doesn't care, let them not care.

I think you're changing the topic here.
These people had their right to vote taken away.  We are discussing if we should undo that.  Whether they should be encouraged to vote after their right is restored is a separate question.

Not really changing the topic.

What he is saying is that if people are stupid enough to commit a crime that causes them to lose their privilege to vote, they probably shouldn't be encouraged to vote if/when the privilege is restored.  Someone stupid enough to commit a crime (we'll use armed robbery as an example) which causes them to be incarcerated and possibly fined probably isn't informed enough to actually vote.  Of course, that's a major voting bloc for your democrat party, the uninformed voter.

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