Talk:Felony disenfranchisement

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[edit] US Disenfranchisement inherited from England

The author states: "The practice of disenfranchisement was transplanted to America by English settlers." For many reasons, this seems unlikely. The author should substantiate this or remove it. --Kjb 19:57, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] US Centric

I added the section "other countries", but this is still to little for a global encyclopedia.-- ExpImp^talkcon 16:40, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

If it's true that "Most democracies give ex-offenders the same voting rights as other citizens", as the article currently says, then there's little need to discuss other countries, unless there's a history of those countries formerly barring felons from voting and eventually abolishing that. Not every topic applies equally to every country. PaulGS 04:11, 13 April 2007 (UTC)