Comment by autoexec

> And I don't think there's a need to increase incentives for authorities to imprison more people to achieve the desired election results through prisoners' voting.

Because what happens in the ballot box is private, it should be possible to let prisoners vote without interference as long as poll workers are allowed inside to do their job, but it's not just people currently in prison you have to worry about. There are places where convicted felons can lose their right to vote even after they've served their time and laws like that have already been used to suppress votes.

> The goal is to preserve democracy by reducing the government's ability to build a totalitarian dictatorship

Freedom means having enough rope to hang yourself with. By strictly limiting who is allowed to vote and taking that right away from millions of Americans you'd be destroying the country, not saving it.