Wednesday, 23 September 2020

Florida Republicans banned old felons from voting if they had outstanding fines. Wealthy Dems just paid off 32,000 accounts.

In a landslide referendum two years ago, Florida voters gave rehabilitated felons the right to vote, but Republican legislators "gutted the biggest voting rights victory in recent history" by making those rights contingent on people paying off any outstanding fines they had. Billionaire Mike Bloomberg and several other wealthy celebrities announced that they will pay…