Selling our vote — transferring it to someone else —is properly considered corrupt and illegal. To prevent current rulers from enacting legislation narrowing the number of people to whom they are accountable, voting should be an “inalienable” right in two senses: that we cannot give or sell our vote to someone else, and that government cannot deprive us of that right for any reason.
After all, we like to think we live in a democracy, and in a democracy voters choose the government rather than government choosing the voters.
Unfortunately, most state governments have stripped the right to vote from people incarerated for a felony.
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