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And if you read into it you see that it was brought about to subjugate some voting demographics

https://www.vera.org/reimagining-prison-webumentary/the-past...

Whether this is true or not, it's certainly enraging.

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Your last line could be the epithet for our times!

I owe much of my personality to Chris Morris ;)

In the UK you don't lose your voting rights after a conviction.

That is specific to the USA, where you lose a bunch of rights if you are a felon.

Most US states don't remove the right to vote from a felon unless they are incarcerated or on parole (and many not even then). Employment discrimination is generally more of an issue than civil rights for felons, because almost noone supports hiring felons anywhere.

TIL link for those curious [https://www.aclu.org/issues/voting-rights/voter-restoration/...].

Looks like only a couple permanent-disenfranchisers.

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