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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.
>>
>>Looks like it hasn't gone to SCOTUS yet, though I have little hope of it being overturned by this anti-voting rights court. (Roberts was in charge of trying to overturn the Voting Rights Act in the Reagan administration.)
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>>Tamar
>Look up Jones v DeSantis July 2020 US Supreme Court. The vote was 6-3 upholding the 11th Circuit decision.

Yuk! It's been decades since we've had a Supreme Court so opposed to voting rights as this one. I will never get over McConnell stealing two seats and putting an attempted rapist in a third.

Tamar
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