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| Mike Bloomberg's Team Re-Enfranchises 32,000 Felons In Florida ‐ All Of Whom Are Black Or Latino |
| 2020-09-24 |
| [Hot Air] A clever bit of gamesmanship by Democrats who’ve otherwise been thwarted in their attempt to return Florida’s many hundreds of thousands of felons to the voter rolls in time for the election. In 2018 Floridians passed a constitutional amendment that restored the right to vote to anyone who’d been convicted of a crime other than murder or a sexual offense. That would have put a gigantic number of new voters in play, many of them poor and minorities, in a state that Trump won by a little more than 100,000 four years ago. Can’t have that, Republicans said. So the state legislature passed a law stipulating that felons would only regain their right to vote if they paid off all outstanding fines and court fees related to their cases. That policy was savaged as a de facto poll tax; a lawsuit ensued, but the new statute was upheld by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. Voting with the majority: Barbara Lagoa, one of Trump’s new SCOTUS shortlisters. According to WaPo, some 775,000(!) felons still owe money to the court system. They’re barred from voting unless and until SCOTUS itself says otherwise. Related: Mike Bloomberg: 2020-09-23 Rep. Matt Gaetz calls for 'vote buying' criminal probe into Mike Bloomberg for paying off $20M in debt for 31,000 Florida felons so that they can cast ballots in November Mike Bloomberg: 2020-08-25 The incredible chutzpah of Jumaane Williams' complaint about an NYPD 'slowdown' Mike Bloomberg: 2020-07-26 1,000 Twitter Workers Had Access To Internal Tools That Hackers Could Exploit |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #12 Elon' goin' east of Eden... land of Nog... |
| Posted by: Thrase the Hairy1111 2020-09-24 20:21 |
| #11 "In a clever bit of gamesmanship, God threatens to punish Dems in perpetuity" Last time God got seriously torqued, it rained for 40 days and 40 nights and we had us a big-ass flood. Say, you don't think Elon's plan to go to Mars was God's idea, do you? |
| Posted by: SteveS 2020-09-24 20:07 |
| #10 "In a clever bit of gamesmanship, God threatens to punish Dems in perpetuity" |
| Posted by: jpal 2020-09-24 17:54 |
| #9 "In a clever bit of gamesmanship, Pelosi threatens to impeach Trump in perpetuity" |
| Posted by: Albemarle Trotsky5130 2020-09-24 13:15 |
| #8 "In a clever bit of gamesmanship, Allahpundit pretends to be a conservative man" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2020-09-24 12:32 |
| #7 "In a clever bit of gamesmanship, Zidan uses his head to block Materazzi..." |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2020-09-24 11:48 |
| #6 "In a clever bit of gamesmanship Mike Tyson goes after Holyfield's ear..." |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2020-09-24 11:45 |
| #5 "In a clever bit of gamesmanship Tonya Harding hires a goon..." |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2020-09-24 11:44 |
| #4 A clever bit of gamesmanship by Democrats Allahpundit, naturally. Up a dollar. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2020-09-24 11:41 |
| #3 Seems that the felons would be guilty of taking something of value for their vote and would be prohibited from voting again. |
| Posted by: gorb 2020-09-24 11:32 |
| #2 this may be illegal vote buying depending on Florida law |
| Posted by: lord garth 2020-09-24 10:31 |
| #1 Anyone who follows Flordia Man Friday knows all the felons can't be just black or latino. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2020-09-24 09:14 |