Felon voting rights fight flares up again
The Florida Rights Restoration Coalition has filed a lawsuit alleging that the state’s handling of the 2018 voter-approved Amendment 4 is preventing and intimidating eligible voters.The amendment, designed to restore voting rights to people with completed felony convictions, excluding those of murder or felony sexual offenses, is being improperly implemented, according to the coalition. The defendants named include Gov. Ron DeSantis and other state officials.
The amendment received approval with a 64.55% majority. I remember the day that I signed the petition to get it on the ballot. Jo-Ann Golden was in the Cultural Plaza and asked me to sign...I did. It seemed only fair if a felon completed his sentence he should be allowed to vote. When it came time to vote on it and having time to think about it, I voted against. Jo-Ann, who spent her life fighting for human rights, civil rights for the LGBTQ community, environmental and economic justice, passed away in 2019. She was a fine soul.
After it passed, Gov. DeSantis signed Senate Bill 7066 in 2019, requiring felons to pay all restitution, fines, fees, or costs resulting from their conviction before voting rights could be restored. This is a fair law as that would be completion of their sentence but liberals are fighting this...they always fight about everything.
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@5:55...Hunter is not a felon...yet. Felons need to complete their sentence and pay all fines, etc. before they can vote.
ReplyDeletewho said in the first place certain people cant vote.commiting a crime doesnt have anything to do with voting.how would you feel sitting in jail not being able to vote and someone swims the rio and are giving a drivers license then they can vote
ReplyDelete@7:33--It's the law.
ReplyDeleteNo tell your president, Biden, to stop the madness at our border.