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I don't understand why any crime, not matter how horrifying, should ever strip you of your right to vote. It's a non-sequitur. Giving a murderer or a rapist the right to vote on who represents them doesn't harm any of us in any way - it's not like the prisoners are all going to band together and vote for a president who loves crime and will release all the criminals. And, of course, we elected a criminal president who releases criminals WITHOUT the prisoner vote in 2016.

And that's not to mention all of the people who are in there for lesser offenses, or who might have possibly been innocent of the crime they were jailed for. These people should absolutely be voting. Yes, from prison. They need to have a voice in the process that detained them unfairly.

I am a very hard-liner on this. I think it's absurd to restrict anyone's right to vote no matter how bad their crime.