Judge Strikes Down #Felon #Disenfranchisement System in #Florida – Mother Jones https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/02/judge-strikes-down-felon-disenfranchisement-system-in-florida/ …
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“A federal judge in Florida has struck down Florida’s system for determining which ex-felons have the right to vote, handing an unexpected victory to advocates of broader voting rights.”
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“Florida is one of a handful of states that permanently disenfranchise convicted felons, even after they have completed the terms of their sentence. The result is that more than 1.5 million Floridians are barred from voting, including 20 percent of voting-age African Americans”
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“Judge Mark Walker’s ruling Thursday does not address the legality of felon disenfranchisement, but rather the manner in which the state haphazardly restores voting rights to some former felons.”
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#Florida Will Vote on Restoring#VotingRights to 1.5 Million#ExFelons – Mother Jones https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/01/florida-will-vote-on-restoring-voting-rights-to-1-5-million-ex-felons/ …Pokaż ten wątek -
“Across the United States, 6.1 million ex-felons can’t vote. More than a quarter of them live in Florida, including 1 in 5 otherwise eligible African American voters in the state. “Florida disenfranchises more of its citizens than Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi...
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North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee combined,” the Brennan Center for Justice reports.” “But this November, there will be a constitutional amendment on the ballot to overturn the state’s felon disenfranchisement law.”
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