[ekbsgexe] Prisoners and voting

Citizens lose their right to vote while incarcerated, and for some crimes permanently even after they have served their sentences. I worry that there is insufficient feedback in our lawmaking because everyone who disagrees with a law (enough to break it) ends up losing their right to vote and effect change in the law. America has a bulging disenfranchised prison population, which suffers from the "Out of sight, out of mind" problem (we don't see the overcrowded prisons, so we don't feel the need to fix them). Giving prisoners back the right to vote is probably one of the more politically palatable ways for (indirectly) fixing the prison problem. We are not giving these despicable prisoners anything tangible (like spending money on prisons), but prisoners have nothing better to do all day, so there will probably be high voter turnout and politicians will have to listen to them.

This also eliminates the political tactic of an incumbent politician passing laws that putting all of his opponent's supporters in jail, preventing them from voting to oust him.