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>In 2018, voters in Florida passed an amendment to the state constitution that restored voting rights to felons who had served their time. The Republican-controlled state legislature wasted no time passing a law that required that all fines and fees related to the sentence must all be paid before the person could vote. However, there is no agency in Florida that tracks those, and most of those people have no way of knowing exactly what they owe. So even if that provision were what the voters wanted, most of the people affected can't fulfill that requirement.
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The second rejection of your argument.
https://ballotpedia.org/Florida_Amendment_4,_Voting_Rights_Restoration_for_Felons_Initiative_(2018)On September 11, 2020, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the state of Florida can require former felons to pay all fines and fees before regaining the right to vote. The court ruled that the plaintiffs failed to show that their constitutional rights were violated. The court wrote in its ruling, "The felons complain that it is sometimes difficult to ascertain the facts that determine eligibility to vote under Amendment 4 and Senate Bill 7066, but this complaint is only another version of the vagueness argument we have already rejected. The Due Process Clause does not require States to provide individual process to help citizens learn the facts necessary to comply with laws of general application. ... States are constitutionally entitled to set legitimate voter qualifications through laws of general application and to require voters to comply with those laws through their own efforts. So long as a State provides adequate procedures to challenge individual determinations of ineligibility—as Florida does—due process requires nothing more."[7][8]
BTW, I voted for the amendment.
>There is a lot of history here, and it's not flattering to the US. I won't bother to write it out, because it's well-known. It's sufficient to say that the Republicans as a party have taken over what was the (southern) Democratic position for much of the century following the Civil War and believe that the votes of Black people should not be allowed to override their votes. If you'd like to learn more about this, I can recommend some reading.
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