Sir, Allowing prisoners to vote is a fundamental right which, practically and symbolically, is at the very heart of any democratic system (letter, May 30). If the state chooses to suspend a citizen’s right to vote, that is a serious constitutional matter. It should be treated with far more balanced consideration and with far less political posturing. Democracy is not a plaything. Is this not the message from the Strasbourg court?
Dr Anél Boshoff
Department of Law and Criminology, Aberystwyth University