Florida must restore voting rights for its citizens.

[L. Coyote]

Link to tweet

[Orsino]

1. You can't reform a justice system by silencing its victims.

No citizen competent to cast a ballot should ever be disenfranchised.

[burnbaby]

2. one would think

once you do your time, it's over. Time to move on and you should have all your rights back

[Igel]

3. There's currently a process for restoration of civil rights in Florida.

It sounds more onerous than a similar kind of process in other states.

Anybody know if it is, or if the different jargon just makes it sound more onerous.

https://www.fcor.state.fl.us/restoration.shtml


In the other states I've looked at, the approval rate is high and the process is fairly fast. It's just that most ex-cons don't know about the process or don't ever apply. (It also ranges from free to fairly cheap.)

[Gothmog]

4. The ACLU and others are working hard to get this measure onto the 2018 ballot