Reluctance to enfranchise prisoners is a hangover from the age of John Locke " a view of rights that sees the vote as a privilegeIs the right to vote a fundamental human right? You could be forgiven for assuming that the answer is yes, given the way that so many modern politicians talk about it. Yet the phrase "right to vote" does not occur in the universal declaration of human rights adopted by the United Nations in…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:13AM on January 21, 2011