Florida at it again: no money, no vote.

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  • July 14, 2019 at 8:28 am #102935
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    The evil-genius of the Repugnants is…beyond words. Poor-people who have Felony convictions, always owe thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars in court costs. (I cant ever remember one of my clients paying off their ‘court-costs’)
    This idea of theirs will spread to every rep-controlled state.
    Its totally unconstitutional I would say, but in this here country, with this here S.Court, who knows.

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    Floor-ida:https://truthout.org/articles/florida-law-throws-voter-rights-restoration-into-chaos/

    “Last November, Floridians passed a constitutional amendment, known as Amendment 4, that automatically restored voting rights to most citizens with felony convictions in their past (“returning citizens”) who completed the terms of their sentence including probation and parole. But this past June, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed Senate Bill 7066, which requires returning citizens to pay off all legal financial obligations (“LFOs”), including court fines, fees, and restitution, assessed by a court at the time of their sentence before they are eligible to vote. In a state where 83 percent of legal financial obligations are expected to go uncollected because of inability to pay, S.B. 7066 amounts to permanent disenfranchisement for many — if not most — returning citizens in Florida.

    S.B. 7066 not only undermines the historic enfranchising effect of Amendment 4 by making the ability to pay LFOs a precondition to voting. It ignores the fact that the state’s byzantine record-keeping system makes it practically impossible….see link

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