• AIhasUse@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    The current record for number of US presidental votes received while in prison is about 1,000,000. Eugene V. Debs is the record holder, and that election was in 1920. Trump just may beat him this year. There is no law that says you can’t be president while in prison.

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      5 months ago

      There is no law that says you can’t be president while in prison.

      This is so a ruling leader can’t imprison all his competition and thus win another election by default.