Friday update from the "freedom state:"

@MistyCee And that's very possible unconstitutional. An added payment in the form of restoration must be made across the board for all crimes; otherwise, buying your power to vote back is wrong.

Further, the 'restitution' can stack up into the tens of thousands of dollars, and it's difficult to get the same figure twice from any state employee. What we did here was create a law to restore voters rights and DeSantis has been trying to kill it ever since.

@Graylight I'm not saying I agree with it, but I'm guessing DeSantis is less concerned with disenfranchising potential democratic voters than he is with the credit for finding and fighting voter fraud and pinning Democrats into standing up for convicted felons.

Back to your OP, I'm far more worried about what he might come up with next in the pipeline then I am about prosecuting a few felons for not keeping up with laws that they can be trapped by.

@MistyCee a new variant of the tried-and-true GQP fear-based electoral strategy portfolio of at least the last half century

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/31/opinion/richard-nixon-america-trump.html

@Ynotisay
If Republicans are committing widespread voter fraud then Americans need to force all precincts to finally allow voting records to be examined for a change so the crooks can now be caught and punished.

Being done. Being done right now on a National stage. @marke

@marke Voting records are examined. That's how we know that widespread fraud doesn't exist. It's never existed. That's why Republicans in 40 states are trying to do everything they can to limit voting.

@ron122 Stupid is not a suspect class. Show me where it says idiots had rights when the 14th Amendment was written.

@ron122 I'm talking about everyone, you ijit. And nobody said anything about people being too stupid to vote. The post was about the methodology. But I wouldn't expect you to understand that.

@LvChris I hear you.

The thing is, and maybe it's just my Conservative/moderate/blue dog Democrat upbringing coming through, but it seems like you have to pick your battles, and fighting for the rights of convicted felons seems a whole lot harder than defending the rights of other folks who have been prejudged without more formal judging.

I get that that's the "liberal" idea, drawing inferences from language and creating stuff like suspect classes, and perhaps deviatimg from the the original intent of the drafters, but I think it's a better strategy at this point to build on thousands of years of political thought, as opposed to daring a political movement opposed to basic societal principles like honesty and respect for the common good to reject their selfish and amoral motivations.

Libs, leftists, RINOs, and everyone else who's not devoted to Following Trump, really don't agree on a lot, but I think it's foolish to fight about realativey minor issues, in the face of an opponent who doesnt give a shit about issues except as tools to his own ends.

@MistyCee I understand, but I would suggest that the restoration of rights to an ex-felon who wants to improve his life and become a contributing citizen is a pretty big deal to them. As an American citizen living under the Constitution, it's a pretty big deal to me. And that's the difference I believe, between Republicans and democrats. We tend to attack the systemic problem much more willingly.

@Graylight True, but convicted felons are like the highest fruit on the tree.