Voting Rights For Hundreds Of Thousands Of Felons At Stake In Florida Trial

[Gothmog]

This trial will be fun to watch

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A contentious federal civil rights trial is slated to begin Monday that will determine whether hundreds of thousands of people with felony convictions will be able to vote this fall in the swing state of Florida.

On one side of the case is Florida, along with a slew of other states supporting it from the sidelines.
On the other, hundreds of thousands of people who have completed their sentences but currently can't vote because of one thing they lack: money.

The much-anticipated class action trial comes a year and a half after Florida voters overwhelmingly approved Amendment 4 to the state's constitution, which automatically restores voting rights to most people with felony convictions after they complete "all terms of their sentence."

[FM123]

1. The importance of this can not be overstated!

Also thinking that Mike Bloomberg could really help us out here - he is a private citizen now and if he could just pay off the balances of these poor folks who can't vote (in dozens of states not just FL) he could literally save us from another term of trump terror.

[Blue_true]

2. I remember reading that a Federal Court had overruled Florida's attempt to force felons

to pay what the Court called a "poll tax" to get the right to vote.