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Debate: Prisoners right to vote
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- Argument: Prisoners have a right to express interests through voting
- Argument: Prisoners are rightly punished by denying their vote
- Argument: Prisoner voting would undermine the public's sense of justice
- Argument: Criminals forfeit the right to vote
- Argument: Most prisoners don't care about voting
- Argument: Prisoner voting offers dignity, aids rehabilitation
- Argument: Depriving prisoners a vote perpetuates disenfranchisement/racism
- Argument: Depriving prisoners a vote wrongly disenfranchises them
- Argument: There is no state interest in denying prisoners a vote
- Argument: Prisoners retain many rights, including the right to vote
- Argument: Prospect of losing voting rights does not deter crime
- Argument: If minors have no right to vote neither should prisoners
- Argument: Voting offers prisoners a sense of citizenship, reintegration
- Argument: Denying felons a vote sends a strong message, deters crime
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- Argument: Only qualified citizens have a right to vote
- Argument: Prisoners lose freedom; what's problem with losing vote?
- Argument: Prisoner voting cheapens votes of citizens
- Argument: Prisoners are unfit for society so unfit to vote
- Argument: Felons have bad judgement, should not help elect reps
- Argument: Unhelpful to ban voting by prisoners serving for 6 months
- Argument: Depriving prisoners their vote exceeds judge's punishment
- Argument: Depriving prisoner vote "disenfranchises" only because more minorities are felons
- Argument: Criminals, dangerous to society, are dangerous with with vote
- Argument: 14th Amendment permits denying voting rights to criminals
- Argument: Equal protection clause does not protect prisoner votes
- Argument: Most liberal democracies extend voting rights to prisoners
- Argument: International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights supports prisoner voting
