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The “enabling legislation” passed by the Republican Majority Florida State Legislature, effectively overturned the will of the voters of Florida when they voted in 2018 to restore voting rights, with the exception of murderers and sex offenders, to all felons who have finished incarceration and probation. It’s basically a poll tax.
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On a party-line vote Thursday night, Senate Republicans pushed through a draconian bill that will compel ex-felons to pay all fines, fees, and restitution associated with their sentences before they can regain their right to vote. The Florida House of Representatives passed a similar bill in April; the two measures will soon be reconciled and sent to Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is expected to sign the final version.
Although some Senate Republicans initially floated a compromise that would allow ex-felons to vote if their fines were converted to civil liens, they eventually caved to the demands of their more extreme colleagues in the House. The bill that DeSantis will soon sign simply replaces one disenfranchisement scheme for another.Nearly 65 percent of voters approved Amendment 4 in November, altering the Florida Constitution to overturn a Jim Crow–era law that permanently stripped voting rights from all convicted felons. By its plain language, the amendment restored suffrage to ex-felons upon completion of their sentence “including parole or probation” (unless they committed murder or a sex offense). It should have been self-implementing, automatically giving roughly 1.4 million Floridians the right to vote when it took effect in January.
The “enabling legislation” passed by the Republican Majority Florida State Legislature, effectively overturned the will of the voters of Florida when they voted in 2018 to restore voting rights, with the exception of murderers and sex offenders, to all felons who have finished incarceration and probation. It’s basically a poll tax.
I dont get why there are 'certain crimes' that are exempt...Once a person has paid their debt off to society, thats IT, their punishment is over and done with...continuing to hold their crime over their head conflicts with a founding principle of the US system of Justice!! Its unpatriotic in other words to withhold voting or other rights, for ANY crime.
The “enabling legislation” passed by the Republican Majority Florida State Legislature, effectively overturned the will of the voters of Florida when they voted in 2018 to restore voting rights, with the exception of murderers and sex offenders, to all felons who have finished incarceration and probation. It’s basically a poll tax.
The “enabling legislation” passed by the Republican Majority Florida State Legislature, effectively overturned the will of the voters of Florida when they voted in 2018 to restore voting rights, with the exception of murderers and sex offenders, to all felons who have finished incarceration and probation. It’s basically a poll tax.
I dont get why there are 'certain crimes' that are exempt...Once a person has paid their debt off to society, thats IT, their punishment is over and done with...continuing to hold their crime over their head conflicts with a founding principle of the US system of Justice!! Its unpatriotic in other words to withhold voting or other rights, for ANY crime.
So those with criminal minds and lifelong rap sheets should now vote on law and order issues. Maybe vote to reduce their sentences, or increased access to law libraries.
So those with criminal minds and lifelong rap sheets should now vote on law and order issues. Maybe vote to reduce their sentences, or increased access to law libraries.
If someone has paid their debt off to society...what right do I or anyone else have to continue to hold their crimes against them? That is VERY 'un-American' ya know?
The “enabling legislation” passed by the Republican Majority Florida State Legislature, effectively overturned the will of the voters of Florida when they voted in 2018 to restore voting rights, with the exception of murderers and sex offenders, to all felons who have finished incarceration and probation. It’s basically a poll tax.
If someone has paid their debt off to society...what right do I or anyone else have to continue to hold their crimes against them? That is VERY 'un-American' ya know?
Be a felon, means you are a felon and felons by their virtue cannot be trusted because they are stupid. Only stupid people commit crimes. Stupid means you lose your voting rights.
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