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My view on allowing prisoners to vote is as follows: In the US whether you are prisoner or not, you are still a citizen of the United States. As such a citizen has many rights one of them being suffrage or the right to vote. In the United States all men are created equal.But is that really true? A prisoner who may be born and raised in the United States has no rights while in jail. But wait wouldn't that mean that the government is breaking one of the sacred laws that this country was built upon? In a sense yes, but to them no. Imagine not being able to have a say in our country. We are a democracy, which means everyone has the right to vote in our government. Amendment 15 is the voting rights act. In the first section of this amendment, it states the right to vote cannot be taken away from people based on their color, race, or what has happened previously in their life. That amendment is not being applied to the rights of prisoners.
TLDR: Prisoners should be given the right to vote as they are citizens too.
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