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Topic	Politics Containment Topic 259: Raucous Caucus Robots
Paratroopa1 01/15/20 10:39:05 PM #99:	xp1337 posted... If politicians will continue to use prison sites and the prisoners within in the apportionment of political representation when drawing districts rather than their actual residence they should have a voice IMO. It's really worth keeping in mind that this is a thing that goes back to slavery, by the way The slave states in the south were none too happy about the idea of their slaves not counting towards the number of electoral votes they received, and fought hard to make sure that non-voting populations counted towards apportionment There is a straight line that can be drawn from this to our current situation of prisoners counting for apportionment but not being able to vote (in most places) <cite>Paratroopa1 posted [p:932993396] in Politics C... [t:78332271]...</cite> <quote>xp1337 posted... </cite> <quote>If politicians will continue to use prison sites and the prisoners within in the apportionment of political representation when drawing districts rather than their actual residence they should have a voice IMO.</quote>It's really worth keeping in mind that this is a thing that goes back to slavery, by the way The slave states in the south were none too happy about the idea of their slaves not counting towards the number of electoral votes they received, and fought hard to make sure that non-voting populations counted towards apportionment There is a straight line that can be drawn from this to our current situation of prisoners counting for apportionment but not being able to vote (in most places) </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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