Posted on 01/08/2019 7:36:20 AM PST by Blue House Sue
Tuesday is a historic day in Florida. Under an amendment passed by the voters in November, as many as 1.4 million felons are regaining the right to vote. The referendum overturned a 150-year-old law that permanently disenfranchised people with felony convictions.
Before the change, people who served their time could apply for clemency to a board headed by the governor. But the cumbersome process and a multiyear backlog meant that only a small percentage applied.
As a result, more than 10 percent of Florida's adult population was not eligible to vote. Desmond Meade who helped organize the referendum campaign says that changed Nov. 6. "We had over 5.1 million voters that voted yes on Amendment 4," he says. "Not one of those votes was based on hate. Not one of those votes was based on fear, but rather votes of love."
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If they’ve paid their debt to society, reinstate ALL of their Constitutional rights, including their Second Amendment rights.
“Please describe the “positive” of letting felons vote except to help Marxist Liberals get into office?”
Most states, including Texas, and now Florida permits certain felons to vote.
I have not looked at voting habits of felons.
Yes
Did I read this right:1 out of 10 adult Florida citizens is a convicted felon! I will vacation else where.
What Article of the Constitution was that?
Even if the recently enfranchised felons do not vote, the democrats can now harvest 1.4 million newly created ballots in their names.
The part in which law is written in omission of constraint.
Is that in the penumbra?
I've been inside and it is a learning journey.
With all that love, maybe they should pull an Oprah and also give all them felons free Subarus...
I’m not a felon but FL has some pretty encompasing felony laws.
Let’s take fishing. Say you go fishing and catch 5 speckled sea trout off Pasco county but land them in Pinellas county. Boom, Region IV - Region V violation. Class III Felony. Or you mis-identify a Red Grouper as a Red Hind? Class III Felony. Or you do real well catching Snappers and grunts and mis-identify a Mango Snapper as a Grunt, -another Class III felony.
Then there’s size limits and seasons. All subject to change at FWC’s whim, posted on their website. If you don’t notice the change after they post it -another felony. And they ALWAYS change the regs during the year. Most anglers use an App just to keep up with what’s legal day to day. Felonies if you can’t keep up.
I didn’t vote for the amendment but I can appreciate the reasoning. Personally, I think they should exclude drug and alcohol related felonies too. People regularly under the influence should not be choosing public policy.
And only demorats will be elected from now on.
JoMa
Florida has turned blue, we just don’t see it yet. Texas is getting more purple. Give it a few election cycles and the GOP is on its way to never winning the Presidency again.
Fascinating. Unless you are a commercial fisherman, and collect banned fish willingly and with intent, those should NOT be felonies.
“Do felons automatically vote Democrat?”
The overwhelming majority of them do. That’s not really a surprise to you, is it?
https://www.louderwithcrowder.com/study-criminals-vote-democrat/
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/jail-survey-7-in-10-felons-register-as-democrats
Arizona can now go either way as well.
But how many even bother to vote?.......................
Well.. that's the $64,000 question. Depends on if the dems sugar it up for them with offerings of freebies.
Agreed!! Jesus gave us the best examples of that. I’ve dealt with a lot of folks on the inside. I don’t believe that illegals will do th right thing if given the option but the other folks might have a different approach. One thing I’ve noticed is that just because someone is a felon doesn’t mean that they have a liberal mindset.
Yeah, these people are mostly not White and therefore will mostly vote rat. For a knife’s edge state like FL this is horrendous.
Robert Downney Jr. came out of prison more conservative, but he was an upper class White man.
Most young Black men probably come out of prison worse, full of hate for the White men that stuck him in there in the first place. An aside but I’m not keen on the idea of prison itself as a punishment for exactly that reason, unless it’s for life (and it’s a rare bird that would deserve life and not just deserve death, mostly crazy people). Just lock em up is a lazy solution. They are exposed to gangs, non-violent felons may be sexually assaulted, drugs are prevalent, dudes have lots of time to work out and therefore become more dangerous.
If prisons were actual reformatories and not warehouses...
At the very least we need to clean them up, eliminate drugs, and that means eliminating corrupt unionized guards who may be little better than the prisoners themselves, eliminate homosexual rape by any means necessary (camera’s in every cell?). Mandate participation in reforming activities, bread and water and solitary if they refuse.
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