Federal and state governments pretend to offer universal
suffrage. The US has one of the lowest
voting turnouts in the world, and nothing is done about it by those in power,
who appear to prefer it this way. Today two large groups find it extremely difficult to
vote in most US states — ex-convicts and the homeless.
Having “paid their debt” to society, in a number of states under various rules, ex-convicts, are then
again punished by being denied the right to vote.
In the case of homeless people, many states have a law
requiring that one must be registered some time before an actual voting day
with a home address. Homeless people
don’t have a home address.
No comments:
Post a Comment