Posted on 06/28/2019 6:41:44 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici
Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill Friday requiring ex-felons to pay court-ordered financial penalties to get their voting rights restored, a move that brought immediate legal action from activists seeking to stop the new law.
The Legislature passed the bill this past spring in response to Amendment 4, which was approved by the voters in November to restore voting rights for ex-felons other than murderers and sex offenders. The amendment won 64.5% of the vote.
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I love that. Hope it stands. It should.
Yes! My governor is awesome!!!!
You mean he’s better than Scott?
Libs like to say that the felons have paid their debt to society. No they haven’t if they haven’t paid fines and court costs.
There will probably be a movement for using Reparations to pay off outstanding fines, restitution, and costs in all prior criminal and civil cases.
Sounds like a Federal subsidy to local government!
Yes. Scott is better in the senate.
Which is why we will not see illegals with driver licenses in FL..
Yes, why not make felons pay? Its costs a fortune to pursue,prosecute and incarcerate them.
If someone calls it a poll tax we should get the SCOTUS to revisit and refuse Obamacare as their ruling based on an old wheeze about an enforced healthcare coverage being a fee or a tax is outdated.
Leave it to liberals to turn virtually anything into an auction house for votes.
I can hear it now: POLL TAX!!!
Sounds more than fair.
Voting is not nor ever has been a right, voting rights can be lost, along with other rights.
At university we had some discussion along these lines in a class. I pointed out that the right to a owning a firearm can be removed for cause, and voting is arguably equally if not more dangerous to society than firearms. The class instructor did not particularly like this line of reasoning, but everyone knew I was correct.
“Liberalism” is a strange, toxic brew, among others and in no particular order: envy, vindictiveness, self-loathing and above all removing any deterrence, responsibility or consquences to poor or self-destructive behavior. The truth is some people shouldn’t be able to vote, felon or not. Universal Suffrage has been a disaster by any rational weighing.
Robbing Peter to pay Paul can always be counted on to have the enthusiastic support of Paul. That’s why Democracy ever and always devolves into anarchy and discontent. Mobocracy. That’s why the founders guaranteed a republican form of government.
Should people in Prison also get to vote on whether to retain the Judges on the bench? Are there any limits to this stuff? With insane leftists running things we’ll find out.
I wish we had a governor like Ron here in California. All states should have one like him. So work hard to keep him.
“Libs like to say that the felons have paid their debt to society. No they haven’t if they haven’t paid fines and court costs.”
Even if they’ve paid fines and court costs, restitution, that is extremely unlikely. Real restitution doesn’t mean just that. Think about the damage just one kid can do who steals a new car, tears it up, runs over a few lightpoles, takes out an electrical transformer or a natural gas feed, any number of high dollar things, and finally plows into somebody’s house. They can cause tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars damage routinely.
None of those costs are ever recouped from the perpetrator. Instead they are cost shifted onto the taxpayer. REAL “restitution” doesn’t mean some administrative fine paid to the government, it means making the people he injured whole again financially. This basic concept has been completely removed from society.
Just throwing the kid in jail, that’s just a further, additional net drain on society. Three hots and a cot, medical care, etc. Incarceration costs big bucks.
DeSantis should run for Rubio’s Senate seat when his first and only term ends in 2022. Rubio runs for Gov. and gets his executive experience and gets THO of the senate.
This is entirely reasonable.
Why would conservative DeSantis want felons to vote. He sounds like a democrat.
You might want to check the history of that.
Have there ever been any national republics that did not devolve into anarchy and discontent?
So true, but the idiotic people at the polling place ratified this awful constitutional amendment.
I despise direct democracy.
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