Should voting rights match a person’s legal responsibilities?
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I think that voting should be limited to those who don't respect legal responsabilities because the right to vote is one of the most important political rights in a democracy country. If a person commits a serius crime, it means they didn't respected a society rule, in countries like Japan the prisoners cannot vote because, breaking the law they have lost civil rights temporarily.
In the United States, in many countries people loose the right to vote during carceration, and sometimes for a period after the release. this measure is a conceguence of their actions, and it's a simbolic part of the punishiment.
Voting means thet people choose laws and leaders. If a person shows that he didn't respected existing laws, they shouldn't influence creations of new laws untill they have dimostrated the reintegration in the society.
It's true also that it can create a social exclusion, it hinders reintegration, and it turns voting from an international right into a conditional privilege. Voting it's an international human right, the punishment should only be the loss of freedom, not political rights and democratic helps reintegration, but political rights depend on respecting legal responsabilities.
Someone who disagrees with me might think that the right to vote is an universal and fundamental right, that political exclusion can create greater marginalisation, and some systems, like in Norway, show that a democracy can funcion even without rovoking prisoners' voting rights, but I think they're wrong because rights and duties must be balenced and it's a form of civic responabilities.
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