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🚨news in Florida: a House committee has moved forward a bill to strip Floridians of right to vote if they haven't been able to fully pay court fines & fees. Hundreds of thousands could be disenfranchised.
Coups easier to pull off when universal suffrage devalued to start with.
Coups easier to pull off when universal suffrage devalued to start with.
sorry, but can we pause & acknowledge how freaking INSANE this is? FL politicians are sitting in a room to decide that a substantial share of their constituents shouldn't get to vote on them (literally, without the usual care to disguise suppression) & this isn't front-page news.
key detail: since January, people have been able to register to vote without this obstacle. Bill would restrict current registration process, and kick people off the rolls who've registered (and who may have already voted in this month's local elections)
Amendment 4 got majorities in ALL congressional & legislative districts. Bill would restrict how it's been implemented in January.
James Grant is GOP chair of committee that passed bill today; he got angry at idea it's a poll tax.
James Grant is GOP chair of committee that passed bill today; he got angry at idea it's a poll tax.
for people reading thru here, I'll add this follow-up thread I wrote in response to a question by a GOP politician from FL.
& you can also visit this state-based series I'm writing on efforts to reform felony disenfranchisement: appealpolitics.org/disenfranchise…
& you can also visit this state-based series I'm writing on efforts to reform felony disenfranchisement: appealpolitics.org/disenfranchise…
Let's broaden this: elsewhere, we see similar ties between voting & whether one can pay.
in KY: regaining rights = $500 expungement fee appealpolitics.org/2018/kentucky-…
in IA: some Rs will only loosen harsh disenfranchisement rules if financial obligation paid theappeal.org/iowa-felon-vot….
in KY: regaining rights = $500 expungement fee appealpolitics.org/2018/kentucky-…
in IA: some Rs will only loosen harsh disenfranchisement rules if financial obligation paid theappeal.org/iowa-felon-vot….
