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Bill: Rights of the prisoner act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Nouveau Parti Libéral (ZR)
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: August 3408
Description[?]:
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Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Voting rights of criminals.
Old value:: Criminals released from jail are allowed to vote after a certain period of time.
Current: Criminals who are charged with minor crimes are eligable to vote, others charged with serious crimes are not.
Proposed: Criminals are always allowed to vote, regardless of whether they are in jail or not.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Government policy with respect to the death penalty.
Old value:: Local governments may choose whether or not to administer the death penalty for capital crimes
Current: The death penalty is illegal and is never to be applied.
Proposed: The death penalty is not applied, except for terrorism, treason and crimes against mankind.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 13:43:05, December 07, 2012 CET | From |  The Surprise Party | To | Debating the Rights of the prisoner act |
| Message | We have some reservations about the first article. However, we believe that we can vote a yes on this bill as is. |
| Date | 15:20:44, December 07, 2012 CET | From | Zardio Federisma Partio | To | Debating the Rights of the prisoner act |
| Message | No to Articles 1 and 3. Prisoners should have NO right to earn a wage that someone can earn who didn't violate the law. Prisoners should only be able to work without pay. We are extremely wary of letting prisoners vote and wish to know the logic behind letting prisoners vote? |
| Date | 00:45:57, December 08, 2012 CET | From | Nouveau Parti Libéral (ZR) | To | Debating the Rights of the prisoner act |
| Message | forcing prisoners to work is like slave labor whether or not they did criminal acts and why would criminals lose their right to vote there's no logic behind it |
| Date | 13:53:04, December 08, 2012 CET | From | Zardio Federisma Partio | To | Debating the Rights of the prisoner act |
| Message | By committing acts if criminality you surrender some rights and privileges because you went against society. While we are open to negotiation on the voting issue we put our foot down on paying criminals. |
| Date | 17:24:58, December 08, 2012 CET | From | Nouveau Parti Libéral (ZR) | To | Debating the Rights of the prisoner act |
| Message | We agree they have to give up some rights or the whole point of them being prisoners wouldn't work but taking away their voting right isn't needed to teach them a lesson. We take away 3 if we don't get the additional votes but we still think its like slave labor. |
| Date | 21:16:37, December 08, 2012 CET | From | Zardio Federisma Partio | To | Debating the Rights of the prisoner act |
| Message | We can agree to Article 1 if Article 3 is removed. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 300 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 188 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 162 |
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