Maybe, but I personally find it useless to send merit to any of those accounts as they can't send merit back to other members, meaning its wasted.
I guess it depends on your perspective: if you're a Merit source who "struggles" to empty his source, any good post is worth it. But if you have 1 sMerit left, I get that you'd rather send it to an active user with equally good posts.
I try not to send merit to banned accounts
I don't keep track of bans while Meriting, but
based on this list I've been lucky in the past 180 days

I'm surprised to see so little Merit sent to banned users, that list used to be a lot longer.