Posted on 01/30/2018 10:18:56 AM PST by simpson96
Search for the nexus of a political debate over whether Florida should restore felons’ voting rights or purge its rolls and you’ll find a white, 71-year-old radiologist named Douglas Hornsby.
A sitting commissioner in the sleepy Miami-Dade coastal town of North Bay Village, Hornsby was removed from office Monday after government officials determined he was never eligible to take his post. Turns out, the septuagenarian omitted an unresolved, 25-year-old felony cocaine conviction in Tennessee from his voting registration forms after he moved to Florida in the ’90s, making him an illegal voter and an illegitimate elected official.
Hornsby, whose reason for removal was unusual even for South Florida, now finds himself at the center of a small-town political drama filled with allegations of extortion and retaliation. But given that Florida is months away from voting on a ballot question that could restore the voting rights to an estimated 1.5 million people, here’s a more pressing issue: How exactly does an ineligible voter go unnoticed for 20 years and make it into public office?
(Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...
Duh!
Easy. DEMOCRAT....................................
Do I need to show you my shocked face?
Miami Dade county...so his illegal vote was a factor during the Bush/Gore recount drama in 2000, where EVERY vote was critical.
Well, that’s one less legitimate Florida vote for Gore during the 2000 election.
ROPE
As soon as I saw that the miscreant’s party affiliation was not trumpeted in the headline nor in the early paragraphs of the article, I knew it must be a DemocRAT.
If it didn’t get caught he would have been voting for another 2 or 3 decades at least.
Democrats have no regard for the law. This man could have regained his civil rights if he really cared to:
Executive Clemency
The clemency function is an act of mercy that absolves an individual from all or any part of the punishment that the law imposes. This is a power to grant full or conditional pardons, or commute punishment. There are rules for these lengthy procedures, and these powers are vested in the Governor only with the agreement of two Cabinet members who are also statewide elected officials.
The Rules of Executive Clemency can be obtained online at
https://www.fcor.state.fl.us/docs/clemency/clemency_rules.pdf
For more information, please contact the Office of Executive Clemency at the address below:
Office of Executive Clemency
4070 Esplanade Way
Tallahassee, Florida 32399-2450
Toll-free: 1-800-435-8286
clemencyweb@fcor.state.fl.us
Charge him with THAT crime then.
Thanks simpson96. "It sez here you've got a cocaine charge. So, would you like to run for office? You sound perfect." "Yeah, I'll take a *crack* at it."
How exactly does an ineligible voter go unnoticed for 20 years and make it into public office?
Barack Obama?
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