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Friday update from the "freedom state:"

Gov. DeSantis is finally cracking down on voter fraud.

The first round, announced during a press conference in Broward County, was focused on felons who illegally voted in 2020 by either not properly applying to have their voting rights restored or were ineligible because of the severity of their crimes.

“This is just the first step. There are many more in the pipeline,” DeSantis said. “We are not just going to turn a blind eye to this. The days of that happening in Florida are over.”

Because yes, let's make a process so difficult and expensive no one can navigate it so we can then deny a vote to whom you know tend to lean democrat.
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Seriously, this thing seems way more about manufacturing "voter fraud" for political reasons, or at least capitalizing on it.

DeSantis seems pretty good at what he does.
Graylight · 51-55, F
@MistyCee When you create your own super-special reflection fraud squad, you have to make up crimes for them to run down.
@Graylight I'm not really following this Fla stuff this carefully, but I thought they passed the must pay restitution to vote bill before DeSantis created the fraud squad.

I might be wrong, and maybe I'm giving him too much credit.
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Graylight · 51-55, F
@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.
SW-User
@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