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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Indian_residential_sc... was still expanding during the 1940's and 1950's when most everyone (except indigenous peoples) could vote.

"We stop killing off / imprisoning people once we give them the right to vote" seems a little too tautological.



Pretty big exception. No universal suffrage; not a proper modern democracy. They're pretty new, really.


Felons can't vote, today.


In the US, no. Bit of an oddity; most other democratic countries don't do that.




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