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Argument: Depriving prisoners a vote wrongly disenfranchises them
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Daniel Machover. "Prisoners too should voteToday's agenda". The Guardian. May 11, 2001 - There is a corrosive effect on a democracy when a certain group is banned from voting, especially if that group is already "unpopular", as with prisoners.
