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October 04, 2004
Felon Voting
Dangerous Dan has a long post about felons and voting rights, where he does a good job of laying out the argumments for and against this issue. I think he comes down slightly against felons having voting rights.
I am against felons having the right to vote as well, but I am rare in that I think too many people vote as it is right now. This presidential election, like many others, is probably going to be decided by swing voters, who have the least well thought out opinions and votes.
I also think it is too easy to vote. Besides practical problems like being able to vote without showing any picture ID and fraudulent absentee voters, voters are often ignorant about what and who they are voting for. I would even be in favor of a test of basic civics knowledge that people would have to pass before being allowed to vote if it could be administered fairly. Democracy is only better than other systems of governments if the voters are well informed. Jonah Goldberg had a recent column about this issue that I liked.
Posted by Pete at October 4, 2004 01:58 PM
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