Alec Ewald has published: “An ‘Agenda for Demolition’: The Fallacy and the Danger of the ‘Subversive Voting’ Argument for Felony Disenfranchisement,” 36 Columbia Human Rights Law Review 109 (2004).
From the introduction:
- This essay exposes the weaknesses in the theory that convicts should not be allowed to vote because they might use their votes for evil purposes. Part I shows that the subversive-voting hypothesis is alive and well in the contemporary debate over disenfranchisement. Part II demonstrates that the subversive-voting claim is profoundly antithetical to modern ideas about universal suffrage