Florida's latest voter suppression ploy plays right into Trump's plan to delegitimize a loss

[JacksinPA]

Florida's latest voter suppression ploy plays right into Trump's plan to delegitimize a loss

Mail voting has already started in Florida, and in-person early voting starts on Monday. The Trump campaign is blitzing the state, an absolute must-win for Donald. And Florida Republicans are ramping up the voter suppression, again targeting the...

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Mail voting has already started in Florida, and in-person early voting starts on Monday. The Trump campaign is blitzing the state, an absolute must-win for Donald. And Florida Republicans are ramping up the voter suppression, again targeting the people with past felony convictions whose right to vote had been restored by the state’s voters in 2018’s Amendment 4.
Republican lawmakers subsequently imposed a poll tax on those returning citizens, saying they could not vote until they had paid off all fines and court fees. Now, state elections officials are telling local elections officials to get ready to strip people of their voter registration, with a plan to send the local officials information on voters “whose potential ineligibility is based on not having satisfied the legal financial obligations of their sentence.”

More than 2 million people have already voted, which could conceivably include some who did so not knowing they hadn’t fully paid their poll tax—information on how much any person owed has been hard to pin down in many cases. Given its commitment to throwing doubt on the results of a potential Trump loss, there’s reason to believe the Trump campaign would use the confusion created by the constantly changing policies of Republican voter suppression to delegitimize Florida’s results—all too plausibly with the help of state officials.
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Something to keep Trump's squadrons of lawyers busy while he contests the election results state by state.

 

[joko104]

Are there any criminals Democrats such as the OPer in his messages doesn't love?

It is a lie calling a fine for a criminal case "a poll tax." This is "give Democrats an inch on their love of criminals and they take a mile. Remember, their FAVORITE members of Congress openly call for releasing everyone from prison.

 

[Grand Mal]

Are there any criminals Democrats such as the OPer in his messages doesn't love?

It is a lie calling a fine for a criminal case "a poll tax." This is "give Democrats an inch on their love of criminals and they take a mile. Remember, their FAVORITE members of Congress openly call for releasing everyone from prison.

So you think owing on a fine should disenfranchise you? What about owing back taxes?

 

[joko104]

So you think owing on a fine should disenfranchise you? What about owing back taxes?

The criminal conviction is what disenfranchised the person - until they have fully satisfied the sentence. Back taxes would not - unless there was a felony criminal conviction for it and the sentence had not been satisfied.

The old phrase is after "they have paid their debt to society" for a criminal conviction. The sentencing to paying a criminal fine is part of that debt to society.