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Those inmates can vote for whoever they want and it probably won't be for the guy who wrote the 1994 Crime Bill.
Yeah, who cares if migrants are having their uteruses removed, the guy isn't woke enough.
Wait. Not only people can buy votes , but people with debts cannot vote ?? Yeah, democracy.
What an absurd voting system.
If those criminals all were KKK members, you probably would be a little more uneasy about them voting.
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As long as he pays off the fines unconditionally, without asking them who they'd vote for, then I don't see a problem here.
"No person shall directly or indirectly give or promise anything of value to another intending thereby to buy that person’s or another’s vote or to corruptly influence that person or another in casting his or her vote." Bloomberg has also pledged $100 million to Biden's campaign and ran as a Democrat in the primary.
Look, I'm not a fan of Bloomberg, and I'm rather disgusted by his attitude that enough money could win him the election. But I also think what he's doing here is honest. He's paying people's fines to give them back their right to vote, which Bloomberg (and many others) think shouldn't have lost in the first place. So it's at least partially a matter of principle; a matter of fighting voter suppression.
No doubt he hopes that many of these people will vote Democrat, but he has no guarantee, nor even a promise, that they will. I'm pretty sure many of them won't vote at all, and many others will vote Republican. Maybe more of them will vote Democrat, but most of those 31,000 will not.
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Yeah, who cares if migrants are having their uteruses removed, the guy isn't woke enough.
You do know the uteruses removal thing is fake news right?
The original fact that you can't be in debt to vote is quite abhorrent. In other times this would be quite the scandal. Given that right the Florida government is actively engaging in voter suppression though...
As a convicted felon in FL you need to have completely full filled the terms of your sentence from the courts in order to have your voting rights restored. This sentence may include the payment of fines or restitution. It is the failure to pay these court ordered payments and therefore completing the terms of their sentence which prevents a convicted felon from being able to vote. General debts do not prevent someone…
The original fact that you can't be in debt to vote is quite abhorrent. In other times this would be quite the scandal. Given that right the Florida government is actively engaging in voter suppression though...
As a convicted felon in FL you need to have completely full filled the terms of your sentence from the courts in order to have your voting rights restored. This sentence may include the payment of fines or restitution. It is the failure to pay these court ordered payments and therefore completing the terms of their sentence which prevents a convicted felon from being able to vote. General debts do not prevent someone…
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As a convicted felon in FL you need to have completely full filled the terms of your sentence from the courts in order to have your voting rights restored. This sentence may include the payment of fines or restitution. It is the failure to pay these court ordered payments and therefore completing the terms of their sentence which prevents a convicted felon from being able to vote. General debts do not prevent someone…
This doesn’t make it much (at all?) better to me. It might even make it worse that the explanation should make this any better.
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You do know the uteruses removal thing is fake news right?
Reference which more-or-less backs that up: https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-were-mass-...
- There have been surgeries traced back to one facility and one doctor inside a detainment center
- There is currently no evidence that this practice is widespread or policy.
The fact is it still did happen within an ICE facility but it might be more limited in scope.
This is an actual case of billionaires buying votes, even if the system that disallows voting for inmates is kind of archaic.
I'm not sure I understand. I think "buying a vote" implies that it had to go to a particular candidate. This only allows these people to vote again at all.
While they said they targeted Black and Latinos I imagine they also targeted younger demographics to court a more Democratic turnout.
I personally think it's same as any campaign group that is helping and assisting people get to voting centers. It's money enabling people to vote. And thus it's fine that a Democrat is trying to help his fellow Democrats vote.