Is this the best Republicans can do?
EX CONS LIKE DON KING CAN'T VOTE IN FLORIDA
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Florida's Disenfranchisement Laws kept over 600,000 non-incarcerated citizens with felony convictions from voting in 2000 [more] and [more]. Additionally, thousands of citizens "Mistakenly" Labeled as Felons lost their right to vote in 2000. It could happen again.
- In Florida, 31% of Black men are barred from voting for life.[more]
- Florida is
one of seven states that bar felons from voting unlessthey successfully
petition to have their rights restored, a long and cumbersome
process.
- Before the 2000 election, 19,398 voters were purged because Florida said they were felons.
- Many of the voters who were improperly removed from voting rolls were from states that do not bar felons from voting.
- Because felons
are disproportionately Democrats, critics said the improper
purge in 2000 could have been a decisive factor in
the presidential election. Bush won the election by 537 votes.
- This year, the state has flagged more than 47,000 individuals as potential felons.
- The State has refused to make this felon list public.