The Florida Senate is still considering its own version of this legislation that's slightly different.
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Breaking news: The Florida House passed legislation that would require people to pay financial obligations as part of their criminal sentence before they can vote again. Bill requires repayment, even if obligation has been converted to a civil lien. The vote was 71-45
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The Florida House would require repayment of restitution, fines and fees ordered by a judge, even if they were converted to a civil lien. The Florida Senate would require repayment of restitution, but not fines and fees if they were converted to a civil lien. Key difference
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This is a great report from 2016 that describes how many states require repayment of legal financial obligations before people can vote again: http://allianceforajustsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Disenfranchised-by-Debt-FINAL-3.8.pdf …
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Florida lawmakers advance measure requiring people to repay financial obligations ordered by a judge entirely before they can vote againhttps://www.huffpost.com/entry/florida-felon-disenfranchisement-poll-tax_n_5cc1106ae4b01b6b3efc6ebe?mno …
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Leave it to Florida to have their people vote, not get the result they want, and then legislate it how they wanted to anyway
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Not only FL, Missouri is also trying to quash the fair redistricting vote, as I think Utah also.
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In Idaho, we passed Medicaid expansion by proposition and the legislature did everything they could to attach work requirements to it. This nonsense of legislatures acting like they know better is awful.
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what do these states have in common that are overruling their constituents? Republican governors, Republican state Senates and Republican House of Reps.
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It's almost as if they don't care about representing the very people that give them their mandate.
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If people keep voting for them it’s going to keep happening.
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The greatest con the GOP has executed is to convince the poor that they too can become rich if more of their money went to the wealthy.
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actually the greatest con perpatrated by the gop is convincing poor white people that poor people of other races are the reason they are poor and that those people want to take what little they had. Its like nazis setting groups of concentration camp inmates fighting...
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Let me guess.. if it becomes law, courts would strike it down as an unconstitutional poll tax, after the 2020 elections.
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The current SCOTUS wouldn't strike it down.
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Elections matter, reason 875,173,429.
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More like elections mattered. You know when democracy was still kind of a thing.
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AMENDMENT XIV: “Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each state... But when the right to vote at any election... is denied to any of the inhabitants or in any way abridged...
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“the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such citizens shall bear to the whole number of citizens in such State.” It’s time for a Second Reconstruction. You strip our vote, we strip your seats in Congress.
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