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So weird that that taking away voting rights permanently is a thing in the US. I might.. maybe.. understand suspending it while someone is under scentence or on probation. But even then, they are your citizens.
Louisiana will even permanently remove parts of your body if they think you raped a child without marrying them first.
"An offender could refuse to get the surgery, but would then be sentenced to three to five years of an additional prison sentence without the possibility of getting out early."
It's elective in the rare heinous cases it would be applied in.