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Bloomberg paying off fines and restitution of over 32K felons in Fl.

“We know to win Florida we will need to persuade, motivate and add new votes to the Biden column,” according to a Bloomberg memo, the Washington Post reported. “This means we need to explore all avenues for finding the needed votes when so many votes are already determined.”

Nope and there is proof.....now what?
It's perfectly legal


Are there any charges? Nope
 
Above all else, conservatives hate the right to vote.

Absolutely ridiculous.....talking out the arse with no merits, only dingleberries.
 
It's perfectly legal


Are there any charges? Nope

This is a new story, the Florida Attorney General is looking into this now. And, no, it is not perfectly legal, as has been shown to you. Denial does your side a great disservice.
 
This is a new story, the Florida Attorney General is looking into this now. And, no, it is not perfectly legal, as has been shown to you. Denial does your side a great disservice.
Looking into? That is all you got?

Dude.....come on
 
This is a new story, the Florida Attorney General is looking into this now. And, no, it is not perfectly legal, as has been shown to you. Denial does your side a great disservice.
Where is the link to the AG herself saying she is looking into it rather than Rep. Gaetz making this claim?

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Where is the link to the AG herself saying she is looking into it rather than Rep. Gaetz making this claim?

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I haven't seen it either
 
'the blacks'......

How do 'the whites' vote?

And paying off fines for former criminals who have served their time, and probation, isn't racist or criminal. So now you know!

Call it "racial profiling"....

“We know to win Florida we will need to persuade, motivate and add new votes to the Biden column,” according to a Bloomberg memo, the Washington Post reported. “This means we need to explore all avenues for finding the needed votes when so many votes are already determined.”


The Washington Post reported Tuesday:

Former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg and his team have raised more than $16 million to pay the court fines and fees of nearly 32,000 Black and Hispanic Florida voters with felony convictions, an effort aimed at boosting turnout for Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.
The money will go to fund a program organized by the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition to pay the fines, fees and restitution costs for former prisoners who are already registered to vote in Florida but barred by law from participating in the election because of those outstanding debts.
Bloomberg, who has committed at least $100 million to electing Biden in the state, raised the money from individuals and foundations over the last week, his advisers said. He saw the donations as a more cost-effective way of adding votes to the Democratic column than investing money to persuade voters who already have the right to vote, a Bloomberg memo said.

The Bloomberg effort, which will be pooled with about $5 million already raised by the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition, is narrowly focused only on Black and Hispanic voters who are already registered to vote and whose debts are less than $1,500.

“We have identified a significant vote share that requires a nominal investment,” a Bloomberg memo on the donation reads. “The data shows that in Florida, Black voters are a unique universe unlike any other voting bloc, where the Democratic support rate tends to be 90%-95%.” The memo also noted that the universe of new voters amounts to roughly the margin of victory for Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis in 2018 and three times Republican Sen. Rick Scott’s winning margin that year.
 
It is a problem.

If anyone believes that Bloomberg didn't just buy 31,000 votes in Florida for the Democrats (quid pro quo), then IMO they are being willfully blind.

If anyone supports this kind of thing, then IMO they are suffering so badly from TDS that they are either unable or unwilling to see the problems with their own "win at all costs" hypocrisy.

But this is typical of the current socialist dystopian view. Clearly reflected in the Democrat's threats to "stack the SCOTUS," eliminate/undermine the electoral college, impeach the President for doing his Constitutional duty, push "mass mail voting" knowing it is a problem...do ANYTHING to win by any means necessary.

You're confused about the problem. These felons could not vote unless they paid a fine. That's absurd. That's a poll tax. How can you possibly justify the idea that someone cannot vote until they pay a fine?

It's obvious that this is an attempt at voter supression. It's hard to respect your opinions when you're so blind to the real injustice here.
 
Aww did he hurt your feewings? Were you not on the list?

Wow! You're accusing me of being an ex-con, who committed a RL crime?...lol!

Insults are all you people have when you're challenged...LMAO!
 
Wow! You're accusing me of being an ex-con, who committed a RL crime?...lol!

Insults are all you people have when you're challenged...LMAO!

No I'm accusing you of boring old spite and jealousy. The biter bit!
 
Felons who have served their sentence are entitled to their voting rights. Florida politicians chose against the public will, to obstruct that right. Bloomberg balanced the scales of justice.

What the heck is it the business of some New York city Yankee sticking his big snout into Florida's business? Yankee Go Home!
 
You're confused about the problem. These felons could not vote unless they paid a fine. That's absurd. That's a poll tax. How can you possibly justify the idea that someone cannot vote until they pay a fine?

It's obvious that this is an attempt at voter supression. It's hard to respect your opinions when you're so blind to the real injustice here.

The felons are NOT the ones who paid the fines and restitution, Bloomberg and democrat operatives paid the fines for the express purpose of getting them to vote for Joe Biden.....this is what they have stated.....that is against the law.

Voter suppression?....lol. If Republiican billionaires and millionaire sports stars went around paying the fines of felons to get them to vote for Trump, that would be alright with you?.......lol, not in a million years, for this forum would be lit up with thread after thread of the corrption of the right, and you know it.
 
It is illegal to pay someone to vote a certain way. It is not illegal to pay someone's fine allowing them to vote as they see fit. I'm so happy that the poll tax is being paid for all of these legal voters. To bad for Matt Gaetz. He doesn't have the money to challenge M.B.
Its a fine nuianse that is at play here but i dont think what he is doing by how the law is written is ilegal for exactly the reason you stated. Its not illegal to help someone to vote as long as that help isnt contigent on who they vote for.
I dont see much difference than a politican making campaghn promises to people who vote for them, like i will cut your taxes.
 
What exactly are you talking about? Stupid people all over America vote and own guns (Republicans) as there is currently no I.Q. test required before doing either. Are you advocating for I.Q. tests before being able to purchase a firearm because I think Democrats could get behind this idea.

You should worry about the IQs of Democrat voters for nominating Sleepy Joe Biden.

Now you're claiming you have it rougher than Jesus? 😂

I'm surprised you aren't calling Jesus a privileged white man. I figured you to be more into the as-salamu alaykum thing when it comes to that area of thinking?

I.Q. tests to exercise your 2nd Amendment rights and calling Jesus a *****, I have to be honest, this is not where I saw this conversation going.
😂

I never called Jesus anything, you did. I hardly think Jesus would be aproving of your Marxist Feminist/Lesbian anarchist hate group BLM--- so why would you bring him up?
 
Is this really happening in America? A billionaire raising money and paying off the fines of felons in Florida, so they can register to vote. If this is not criminal, I don't know what is....goodness. This needs to be investigated immediately and forthwith to get to the bottom of this vote buying, bribery scheme.






This is so wrong on so many counts.....unbelievable.
How is it wrong? He's rich and he can do pretty much what he wants with his cash. Remember, the FL Supreme Court said they could vote if their fines are paid. Their fines are paid, they're legally eligible. Take it and like it.
 
This is a new story, the Florida Attorney General is looking into this now. And, no, it is not perfectly legal, as has been shown to you. Denial does your side a great disservice.

Just like Durham huh?

You guys keep insisting that such and such a liberal is an obvious criminal, but grand juries never seem to indict. Funny, that.
 
How is it wrong? He's rich and he can do pretty much what he wants with his cash. Remember, the FL Supreme Court said they could vote if their fines are paid. Their fines are paid, they're legally eligible. Take it and like it.


From uslegal.com:


Any reward given to a person for voting in a particular way or for not voting can be called vote buying. Vote buying is a corrupt election practice. A vote buying bribe is that having a monetary value. The practice of vote buying is banned in United States. Vote buying is a threat to the conduct of fair elections. In the U.S. vote buying is an offence when a person knowingly or willfully gives false information or conspires with another individual for the purpose of encouraging his false registration to vote or illegal voting, or pays or offers to pay or accepts payment either for registration to vote or for voting shall be fined not more than $ 10,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. This provision shall only by applicable to general, special, or primary elections (42 USCS § 1973i(c)).


Bloomberg and the group of operatives doing this have stated it is for garnishing more votes for Biden.....the monetary value is the paying off of fines and restitution. The left is becoming more and more the party of lawlessness, as they now deem this as ok. You heard that rich Republicans, bring on the money....they do it, so let us also.
 
From uslegal.com:


Any reward given to a person for voting in a particular way or for not voting can be called vote buying. Vote buying is a corrupt election practice. A vote buying bribe is that having a monetary value. The practice of vote buying is banned in United States. Vote buying is a threat to the conduct of fair elections. In the U.S. vote buying is an offence when a person knowingly or willfully gives false information or conspires with another individual for the purpose of encouraging his false registration to vote or illegal voting, or pays or offers to pay or accepts payment either for registration to vote or for voting shall be fined not more than $ 10,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. This provision shall only by applicable to general, special, or primary elections (42 USCS § 1973i(c)).


Bloomberg and the group of operatives doing this have stated it is for garnishing more votes for Biden.....the monetary value is the paying off of fines and restitution. The left is becoming more and more the party of lawlessness, as they now deem this as ok. You heard that rich Republicans, bring on the money....they do it, so let us also.
It would be illegal if a political party or someone like Biden or Trump or anyone else running for office did this. DOOOMberg is none of this, just a way too rich asshat. Basically it's not illegal for a private person to pay someone else's fines.
 
Is Jared Kushner’s daddy a Florida resident?
 
From uslegal.com:


Any reward given to a person for voting in a particular way or for not voting can be called vote buying. Vote buying is a corrupt election practice. A vote buying bribe is that having a monetary value. The practice of vote buying is banned in United States. Vote buying is a threat to the conduct of fair elections. In the U.S. vote buying is an offence when a person knowingly or willfully gives false information or conspires with another individual for the purpose of encouraging his false registration to vote or illegal voting, or pays or offers to pay or accepts payment either for registration to vote or for voting shall be fined not more than $ 10,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. This provision shall only by applicable to general, special, or primary elections (42 USCS § 1973i(c)).


Bloomberg and the group of operatives doing this have stated it is for garnishing more votes for Biden.....the monetary value is the paying off of fines and restitution. The left is becoming more and more the party of lawlessness, as they now deem this as ok. You heard that rich Republicans, bring on the money....they do it, so let us also.
Nice try. They may be doing it for Biden's benefit, but you cannot say that they are paying for these people to vote for Biden. You can infer that, but inference doesn't have legal standing.
 
It would be illegal if a political party or someone like Biden or Trump or anyone else running for office did this. DOOOMberg is none of this, just a way too rich asshat. Basically it's not illegal for a private person to pay someone else's fines.

It is illegal for them, when their "intent" is to acquire more votes for Joe Biden.....that is called "vote buying" and it is illegal. As has been shown already in this thread Bloomberg and the democrat operatives doing this scheme, have stated thusly......so they have admitted to buying votes. You are not so naive to think they are doing this out of the goodness of their hearts, are you?......if so, wow, there can be no help.
 
Nice try. They may be doing it for Biden's benefit, but you cannot say that they are paying for these people to vote for Biden. You can infer that, but inference doesn't have legal standing.

Sure it does....it's called "intent". They have stated their intent for all to see, so there is no doubt whatsoever why they are doing this vote buying scheme. It is illegal to do so, no matter what you or I say....their own words convict them.
 
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