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minus-squareTar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-21 year agoWait, are criminals not allowed to vote in the US? Jesus fucking hell, that is not ok.
minus-squaredjsoren19@yiffit.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year agoYeah, it varys from pretty fucked up to unreasonably fucked up depending on the state. Some states, you’re not able to vote while serving your term. In other states, you lose your right to vote for life.
minus-squarenehal3m@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-21 year agoI think that’s a rule from the 1870’s mostly aimed at preventing black people from voting.
minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoYep, in combination with “vagrancy” laws. Here’s how the scheme worked: Refuse to hire blacks for anything more than “might as well still be slavery” wages. Arrest unemployed blacks for “vagrancy.” Re-enslave them (see “except as punishment for crime” clause of the 14th Amendment) and disenfranchise them as a bonus.
minus-squarericecake@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year agoIn some jurisdictions, in some contexts, and for different lengths of time some criminals are denied the right to vote. https://www.aclu.org/issues/voting-rights/felony-disenfranchisement-laws-map
Wait, are criminals not allowed to vote in the US?
Jesus fucking hell, that is not ok.
It depends on the state
Yeah, it varys from pretty fucked up to unreasonably fucked up depending on the state. Some states, you’re not able to vote while serving your term. In other states, you lose your right to vote for life.
I think that’s a rule from the 1870’s mostly aimed at preventing black people from voting.
Yep, in combination with “vagrancy” laws.
Here’s how the scheme worked:
Refuse to hire blacks for anything more than “might as well still be slavery” wages.
Arrest unemployed blacks for “vagrancy.”
Re-enslave them (see “except as punishment for crime” clause of the 14th Amendment) and disenfranchise them as a bonus.
Land of the free, baby!
In some jurisdictions, in some contexts, and for different lengths of time some criminals are denied the right to vote.
https://www.aclu.org/issues/voting-rights/felony-disenfranchisement-laws-map