@mikemacleod @ricci @neckspike @q_aurelius @mekkaokereke @MHowell @georgeeyong @oscarjiminy @carnage4life while we’re all talking about the Canadian electoral system, since 2003 Elections Canada has been required to provide voting booths in prisons.
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Marc Ducharme (marcducharme@mstdn.ca)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jul-2023 05:27:46 JST Marc Ducharme
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yes, it's me, liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 (blogdiva@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jul-2023 05:27:44 JST yes, it's me, liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦
"incarcerated persons count for the purposes of determining the population of the district, but generally can't vote."
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just like in the Antebellum south; but back then they only where accounted as 3/5 a person.
PRISON SLAVES (this is the 13th amendment loophole), now count as one person. there are whole ELECTORAL COLLEGE counties in the south made out of prison slaves only
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Rob Ricci (ricci@discuss.systems)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jul-2023 05:27:45 JST Rob Ricci
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The USA does the opposite of this: the placement of prisons into voting districts is a key element of gerrymandering, because incarcerated persons count for the purposes of determining the population of the district, but generally can't vote.
AnthonyJK-Admin and carl marks repeated this.
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