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Joe Exotic posts on instagram that his husband was deported by ICE after years of shilling for Donald Trump.

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[–] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 3 points 1 month ago (8 children)

still voted trump

He's in prison isn't he? He didn't vote

[–] Renohren@lemmy.today 3 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Wait. I'm French so this made my brain fry.

In the US prisoners have their constitutional rights removed?

[–] InputZero@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Yup! In America convicted felons are not allowed to vote in federal elections and depending on the law of the state they are not allowed to vote in state or municipal elections either. As a result of these policies a disproportionate amount of black and Latino communities have had their right to vote stripped away.

[–] Restis@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So.... Does this mean the current sitting American president couldn't vote in the last election?

[–] addison@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

He was convicted in a state court, not a federal court, so the rules are a bit different.

Additionally, elections are administered at the state level, rather than federally, so his home state of Florida makes the rules allowing or disallowing his vote.

CNN wrote a piece about it on election day.

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