are you equating automatons to human beings, as if what gives human beings worth is their capacity for labor?
Yea. In the future, for reasons unexplainable, people might come together and decide that "robots," or corn, or skunks, or cows, can vote. That's how our legal system works.
I think they work hard and are very intelligent so lets give them a voice. Not saying that is the criteria for voting just that in my opinion they should vote.