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1/ More than 700,000 formerly incarcerated Floridians owe money to the courts — and now, following a 6-4 decision by an appeals court, they will not be able to vote in the 2020 presidential election unless they pay off the fees.https://bit.ly/3bYH5jB
2/ The case, which was the nation's sole felony disenfranchisement lawsuit citing a #19thAmendment violation, argued that a Florida law requiring formerly incarcerated people to pay court fees and fines constituted a poll tax.https://bit.ly/3bYH5jB
3/ The backstory — In 2018, two-thirds of Floridians voted in favor of an amendment to restore voting rights to 1.5 million formerly incarcerated people. It was billed as the largest mass enfranchisement effort since the Voting Rights Act of 1965.https://bit.ly/3bYH5jB
4/ The state legislature responded with Senate Bill 7066, which said that restitution, fines, and court costs must be paid before someone who'd served their prison time, including parole, could register to vote. The law has been in the courts ever since.https://bit.ly/3bYH5jB
5/ In the appeal, the Southern Poverty Law Center brought a #19thAmendment claim on behalf of Rosemary McCoy and Sheila Singleton, two formerly incarcerated Black women who cannot pay their fees.
The 19th's @keaux_ originally reported on this in August:https://bit.ly/2ZyQ8Tu
6/ McCoy owes about $7,500, including interest; Singleton owes $12,000, including interest. Statewide, payment plans are left to the discretion of the counties, some of which tack on a 40% collections fee to unpaid court debt.https://bit.ly/3bYH5jB
7/7 "...if you are a woman already making less money, if you are Black and already discriminated against, and if you are poor and don't even have real access, then of course this requirement is going to have a disparate impact on low-income women of color."https://bit.ly/3bYH5jB
This is infuriating.
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