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TEP MoWAA on Protecting Convicted Voters


General Assembly: Protecting Convicted Voters


The current at-vote resolution in the General Assembly is titled “Protecting Convicted Voters”, authored by Tinhampton. This resolution grants the rights and resources for citizens convicted of crimes to vote, alongside protecting citizens that were convicted of crimes from voter intimidation.

This proposal is beneficial to the General Assembly because it further expands the right to vote- the right for citizens convicted of crimes to vote. Everyone should have the right to vote freely and without intimidation, including those convicted of committing crimes. This resolution does that effectively by giving suffrage to criminals, protecting them from voter intimidation, and setting up polling stations at prisons.

For these reasons, the East Pacific Ministry of World Assembly Affairs recommends voting for “Protecting Convicted Voters”.

Ministry Recommendation: FOR (3-0-1)
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Protecting Convicted Voters

A resolution to increase democratic freedoms.


Believing that those member states which choose to hold democratic elections should refrain from making any person ineligible to take part in those elections simply due to their circumstances, the General Assembly hereby:

  1. requires members to ensure that no person within their jurisdiction is prevented (or otherwise unduly restricted) from voting in a election for public office simply because they currently are being, or have previously been, punished for a crime,

  2. further requires prisons in member states to protect their prisoners from being pressured to vote for or against any candidate or slate of candidates, or to refrain from voting, by any entity in all elections for public office,

  3. mandates that those members which choose to hold elections for public office, but require those voting at said elections to be physically present at a polling station in order to vote, provide adequate polling stations at prisons as to allow all eligible prisoners to vote, and

  4. clarifies that Article a does not mandate that elections for public office be organised in any member state.

Co-authored with Coraspia.


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