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Bill: Democratic Action 26
Details
Submitted by[?]: Social Radical Party
Status[?]: defeated
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 3498
Description[?]:
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Voting rights of criminals.
Old value:: Criminals released from jail are allowed to vote.
Current: Criminals are always allowed to vote, regardless of whether they are in jail or not.
Proposed: Criminals are always allowed to vote, regardless of whether they are in jail or not.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 16:29:45, June 09, 2013 CET | From | Capitalist Working Families | To | Debating the Democratic Action 26 |
| Message | Criminals RELEASED from jail are already allowed to vote. However, once you break the laws of our nation and local governments, you should be denied that basic right. Besides, if we give criminals the right to vote, what INCENTIVE is there to deter criminals from breaking in laws in the first place??? |
| Date | 17:34:05, June 09, 2013 CET | From | Workers' Solidarity Movement | To | Debating the Democratic Action 26 |
| Message | Mr Speaker, Criminals are still citizens and human beings, so should not be denied any basic rights. Criminals should retain the right to choose their Government, as the Government's decisions still affect them. And in answer to the Hon member of the CWF, jail is the deterrent! Alice Bourne, Solidarity Spokesperson for Justice |
| Date | 19:22:48, June 09, 2013 CET | From | Urban Party of Rutania | To | Debating the Democratic Action 26 |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, Does this mean the SRP and the WSM support allowing terrorists, child molesters and serial killers the right to vote? James Kenner UPR Congressional Leader |
| Date | 22:04:25, June 09, 2013 CET | From | Social Radical Party | To | Debating the Democratic Action 26 |
| Message | Mr Speaker, Of course, Mr Kenner: even though terrorists, child molesters and serial killers have done something terribly, terribly wrong, that doesn't make them any less human, and it doesn't give us any right to violate their human rights. There are murderers on both the left and the right of the political spectrum, so I hardly see how it can have much of an impact on the political process and election turnouts. Alexia Florence, Leader of the Opposition |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 178 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 377 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: In cases where a party has no seat, the default presumption should be that the party is able to contribute to debates in the legislature due to one of its members winning a seat at a by-election. However, players may collectively improvise arrangements of their own to provide a satisfying explanation for how parties with no seats in the legislature can speak and vote there. |
| Random quote: "Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike." - Oscar Wilde |