This is far too late
for the Florida Democrats and their President!
Nearly 2 Million
Felons in Florida, Most of Them Black, to Have Voting Rights Restored
Posted On December
26, 2016
Of the 1.5 million
Florida residents barred from voting due to a prior felony conviction, almost a
quarter are African-American. But, a newly proposed referendum seeking to
repeal the state’s felony voting restriction could restore those rights.
After advocates
spent a number of years gathering the required 68,314 petition signatures, the
Florida Supreme Court on Monday announced that it would consider a proposal
allowing a referendum on the the 2018 ballot asking state voters to roll back
Florida’s felony voting restriction law, the Intercept reported. The court is
expected to review the proposal on March 7.
In Florida, 1 in 4
blacks of voting age cannot vote because of felony conviction
More than
50 years after Congress passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965,
Florida is
still a place where in a typical public setting — a grocery store or a city
block — a sizable portion of the citizens you walk among are likely to be
quietly enduring the state’s lifelong disenfranchisement.
In neighborhoods like
heavily black Parramore, an even larger number of residents will be unable to
vote.
And Walker says that in his congregation, those who can vote are
outnumbered by those who cannot.
Florida's Governor
Rick Scott
has been changing, corrupting and stopping many of the laws passed
by at least two passed Florida Republican Governors.
A trend that has
been going against
what most governors in this country
has been doing.
Because
"if
you do the crime and pay the time!"
You should be able
to join the rest of the civilized world.
Not in Florida,
because, if the laws had not been tweaked into the favor of the Republican
Party.
Hillary Clinton
would be our President Elect!
Among Florida’s
black population, the rate of disenfranchisement is high, with nearly a quarter
of African-Americans prohibited from voting.
An estimated 5.9
million voting-age Americans won’t be able to vote next Tuesday
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October 28, 2014
Next
Tuesday, tens of millions of Americans will take to the polls to vote on
everything from ballot issues to federal, state
and local representation. But millions of
voting-age adults will be sitting this one out.
An estimated 5.85 million Americans won’t be able to
vote due to prior felony convictions, according to an estimate from
the Sentencing Project, a criminal justice nonprofit think tank. Of those,
roughly 44 percent are estimated to be felons who live in the 12 states that
still restrict voting rights after sentences have been served, a practice
that excludes as many as 1 in 10 voting-age
residents of Florida, the state with the highest rates of felon
disenfranchisement.
