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Bill: Voting Rights Reform Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Cildanian Libertarian Party
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: March 4169
Description[?]:
| While we hold that voting is necessary to the survival of Liberty and our Republic, we feel that the voting laws are too strict when it comes to criminals being allowed to vote. We believe that once somebody has been convicted of a serious crime, they give up certain rights. If a person has been convicted of a violent crime, they can longer purchase firearms; this should be also true of their right to vote. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Voting rights of criminals.
Old value:: Criminals released from jail are allowed to vote.
Current: Criminals released from jail are allowed to vote after a certain period of time.
Proposed: The decision is left to the local governments.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 10:17:49, February 18, 2017 CET | From |  Cildanian Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Voting Rights Reform Act |
| Message | OCC: Since there isnt an option for taking away violent criminals right to vote, I decided that the best choice was to just let the states decide. |
| Date | 16:31:34, February 18, 2017 CET | From | Socialist Alliance for Workers Unity | To | Debating the Voting Rights Reform Act |
| Message | We refuse to support this wholeheartedly. To effectively strip away a Cildanians citizenship if they commit a crime is a dangerous and, frankly, stupid idea. To not allow rehabilitation and reform of criminals within the justice system at all would just make them even more hardened criminals. If one loses everything after committing a crime, and is stripped of their rights after serving the due time within the criminal justice system, what stops them from continuing a life of crime. This proposal is both dictatorial and inhumane, and represents a dark path our country should never go down. |
| Date | 17:47:30, February 18, 2017 CET | From | Cildanian Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Voting Rights Reform Act |
| Message | We fail to see what is so dark about this proposal, we are simply acknowledging that those who have committed violent crimes should not be given the chance to vote. If they cannot own a gun, then they should not be able to wield a power such as the right to vote. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 226 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 174 | |||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: References to prominent real-life persons are not allowed. This includes references to philosophies featuring the name of a real-life person (eg. "Marxism", "Thatcherism", "Keynesianism"). |
| Random quote: "Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent." - John Maynard Keynes |