Diritti di voto dei detenuti in Europa
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Diritti di voto dei detenuti in Europa
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The above map shows which countries allow inmates to vote. Disenfranchisement (being deprived of the right to vote) is a contentious issue and is not commonly excercised in Europe which puts it in stark contrast to countries like the United States.
Countries have been assigned to four different buckets according the key you will find below. The European Court of Human Rights has in the past 15 years ruled that countries with blanket voting bans should expand the rights of inmates. Presented information can be out of date if legislation has been amended; in that case please leave a comment.
**Dark Green:**
Countries where all inmates are allowed to vote. Countries where inmates are allowed to vote unless they have been convicted of crimes that targeted the state or democratic order.
**Light Green:**
Countries where disenfranchisement can be used as an additional penalty but the penalty is not automatic and is used very rarely.
**Yellow:**
Countries where disenfranchisement is automatic for longer sentences and/or has to be explicitly waived by the judge during sentencing.
**Red:**
Countries where most or all inmates are not allowed to vote.
**Other:**
Andorra does not have specific legislation regulating the issue. Vatican has no traditional elections.
*Sources:*
[https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/BRIE/2023/751459/EPRS_BRI(2023)751459_EN.pdf](https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/BRIE/2023/751459/EPRS_BRI(2023)751459_EN.pdf)
[https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-20447504](https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-20447504)
Finally have a map not like all the others.
Interesting. Newer though of it, but it does make some sense that inmates don’t get to vote. After all, they are inmates for a reason, and I assume they get to vote again when they have served their sentence.
Well, I was not aware this is turning into mapporn v2.0
While the news are getting censored by mods.
You missed a country
So what is the rational here for the countries that allow full voting?
If you are in prison for committing a crime (lets say murder or child abuse to be extreme) and rather than creating wealth through taxes you are being kept by the tax money people pay, why should you have a right to vote?
~~I understand it is a right, but surely that right comes with those who actual contribute to society and not those who are a detriment to it…~~
(Edit to clarify): It costs the government tens of thousands per inmate per year. They have chosen to break the rules of the country they live in. Why should they have an equal say in the running of a country when they are detrimental to its society?
This is so fucked up ngl
Super surprised, about the prevalence of no voting rights.
I feel Volt as the party of the rich erasmus students, that can travel 2-3 times at year in Europe thaks to daddy’s money, take a photo of a sprizt in Milan or of a Croissant in Paris and call themselves “Europeans”. Totally disconnected from the mind of the common people. United Europe, yeah how are you going to convince the people?
At least that was my experience in italy.
(I am no rightwing)
The representation of Austria is incorrect.
There are criteria under which inmates in Austria can be prevented from voting. It also has to be enacted on an individual basis for each inmate, through a judge. It is not the default. Almost all inmates in Austria are able to vote, assuming that they are entitled to vote in Austria in the first place.
[https://www.oesterreich.gv.at/themen/transparenz_und_partizipation_in_der_demokratie/demokratie-und-wahlen/wahlen/1/Seite.320210.html#ausschluss](https://www.oesterreich.gv.at/themen/transparenz_und_partizipation_in_der_demokratie/demokratie-und-wahlen/wahlen/1/Seite.320210.html#ausschluss)
All those who are subject to the laws with permanent or very long residency should have the right to vote imo
The Netherlands should be light green according to your key and the report by the EU. The BBC source is wrong.
>According to a Commission-funded report from 2020, this provision acts as a triple cumulative filter: an individual must have committed an offence that could be sanctioned with disenfranchisement, they must have been finally sentenced to imprisonment of 1 year or longer and a judge must have ruled to disenfranchise them.
Ergo, no automatic disenfranchisement.
Russia: mostly unable to vote unless Putin needs some more votes :3
Everyone should be allowed to vote. Inmates still need to feel they are a part of a society.
WTF, I thought it’s in the declaration of human rights or something. Super surprised by UK and Austria