sweetpea
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Should they be allowed to vote while on welfare?
No but it's really hard to enforce. What if you were on welfare 1 day out of the election cycle? Would you be disallowed? What if you were on welfare all days but the 1 magic date? Would you be allowed? An even trickier question is this: What is an election cycle?
The spirit of your question would extend to people receiving military pay, pell grants, food stamps, social security, military retirement pay and so much more. There are many types of transfer payments that goes beyond the AFDC checks. I'm assuming that is what you mean by welfare. A lot of people would be pretty sore at you for excluding the military from voting just to make a point about how dirty those welfare recipients are. I think this is a no go. It wouldn't even make for discussion in congress.
I was a government employee for 5 years of my life. I didn't vote the entire time because I believed it was immoral for a government employee to vote. I still feel the same way today. By that logic, I would extend that to welfare recipients and social security recipients too. That's just my personal conviction. I cannot imagine any possible way that you could write that into law. That's saying a lot because I have a pretty big imagination.