Letters to the Editor
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Easy fellas!
Let's be a bit more careful here when throwing around that word "disenfranchisement". Correct me if I'm wrong, but nobody is saying these people can't vote in the General Election are they? Didn't think so.
Not having your choice count for the nomination sucks, but disenfranchisement it ain't...sorry.
Keeping people off the voting register for the General Election because their names sound similar to convicts? Or keeping off felons? Yep, those are most certainly examples of disenfranchisement.
You know, lots of other democracies select their party leaders in MUCH more exclusionary manners (like here in Canada for example), oddly enough you never hear people complaining that they weren't privy to the selection process...I suppose you can be privy, but then you have to become a member of the party - something that is nowhere near as common as it is in the US).
Let's ease up on the histrionics shall we?