[DRAFT] Voting Opportunities for Prisoners

[Calsolato]

Here is a General Assembly Proposition, tell me what you think of it.

The World Assembly,

The Opportunity and right to vote for a prisoner shall not be infringed upon and all current prisoners shall have the chance to vote.

The rights and restrictions to voting for prisoners shall be the same as any other citizen in regards to times and requirements such as age and citizenship status.

The definition and the qualifications to be considered a prisoner is:

a person legally held in a government or private facility/prison as a punishment for the crimes they have committed or while awaiting a trial.

Be it enacted by the world assembly as follows:

1. All prisoners rights to vote shall not be infringed upon while being detained in a government facility or private prison.

2. Each prisoner shall get to cast a ballot inside of a prison and all ballots shall be taken to an election center where the ballots shall be cast.

3. The time in which ballots are cast must be the same for prisoners as regular citizens.

4. A prisoner shall have the right to vote no matter what crime they have committed.

[Wallenburg]

"Very interesting. I must point out that clauses one and four seem to contradict one another. Also, definitions traditionally come before any active mandates."

[Kenmoria]

“This doesn’t have any particular errors with regards to conforming with the rules of this assembly, but I find the content rather misguided. For example, with someone convicted of voting fraud or an extremely serious crime like mass murder, suffrage would most likely not be appropriate. There is also the fact that this appears rather restrictive on democracies, which seems hypocritical where there dictatorships in the WA.”

[Calsolato]

"Very interesting. I must point out that clauses one and four seem to contradict one another. Also, definitions traditionally come before any active mandates."

Fixed

[Separatist Peoples]

"Opposed. Criminals serving sentences are deprived of certain rights, sometimes out of necessity and other times as part of the punitive experience. In the C.D.S.P., prisoners are temporarily disenfranchised for the duration of their incarceration. For a politically active population, this is no small punishment. We oppose an attempt to reverse this policy."

[Kowani]

"Opposed. Criminals serving sentences are deprived of certain rights, sometimes out of necessity and other times as part of the punitive experience. In the C.D.S.P., prisoners are temporarily disenfranchised for the duration of their incarceration. For a politically active population, this is no small punishment. We oppose an attempt to reverse this policy."

"May I remind you that certain...barbarian wastes have imprisonment for petty things like Jaywalking."

"What your bill needs are a list of crimes that can result in suffrage being lost and prohibiting it for everything else.

[Separatist Peoples]

"Opposed. Criminals serving sentences are deprived of certain rights, sometimes out of necessity and other times as part of the punitive experience. In the C.D.S.P., prisoners are temporarily disenfranchised for the duration of their incarceration. For a politically active population, this is no small punishment. We oppose an attempt to reverse this policy."

"May I remind you that certain...barbarian wastes have imprisonment for petty things like Jaywalking."

"What your bill needs are a list of crimes that can result in suffrage being lost and prohibiting it for everything else.

"Any government who seeks power by imprisoning voters has larger problems than this draft, ambassador."

[Araraukar]

"Is the author aware that not all member nations have elections and voting, or at least not ones that anyone but the chosen councilors or committee members was eligible to vote in?"

[LiberNovusAmericae]

I oppose this. Murderers in prison for example shouldn't have the right to vote, and it opens up the possibility of a politician offering amnesty in exchange for votes.

[Caracasus]

I oppose this. Murderers in prison for example shouldn't have the right to vote, and it opens up the possibility of a politician offering amnesty in exchange for votes.

If the number of prisoners in your nation is so large that it's likely that politicians would gain an advantage in the polls by offering amnesties then your nation is fucked far beyond what a WA resolution could do.

The major pitfall when it comes to prisoner voting really comes from the fact that prisoners are often imprisoned in different towns or counties to the ones they live in. Where would the prisoner cast their vote? For a represntative from their home or for one from where they are imprisoned?

[LiberNovusAmericae]

I oppose this. Murderers in prison for example shouldn't have the right to vote, and it opens up the possibility of a politician offering amnesty in exchange for votes.

If the number of prisoners in your nation is so large that it's likely that politicians would gain an advantage in the polls by offering amnesties then your nation is fucked far beyond what a WA resolution could do.

The major pitfall when it comes to prisoner voting really comes from the fact that prisoners are often imprisoned in different towns or counties to the ones they live in. Where would the prisoner cast their vote? For a represntative from their home or for one from where they are imprisoned?

Prisoners can influence small local elections, especially if a prison is located in a very rural area. That being said, I primarily oppose this for punishment reasons. People who committed a major crime shouldn't get to vote until their prison term is up. Assuming that prisoners get to vote though, they should only get to vote for politicians running in their hometown, not where the prison happens to be.

[Cosmopolitan borovan]

Support

[Liberimery]

We will oppose this as well. As a Direct Democracy, the votes of the incarcerated can do much more damage to our own communities than merely possiblely Gerrymander some districts.

[Marxist Germany]

"Opposed. Criminals serving sentences are deprived of certain rights, sometimes out of necessity and other times as part of the punitive experience. In the C.D.S.P., prisoners are temporarily disenfranchised for the duration of their incarceration. For a politically active population, this is no small punishment. We oppose an attempt to reverse this policy."

"May I remind you that certain...barbarian wastes have imprisonment for petty things like Jaywalking."

"What your bill needs are a list of crimes that can result in suffrage being lost and prohibiting it for everything else.

I agree