The new Black face of the GOP. Is this the best Republicans can do?
The new Black face of the GOP.[ ]
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.
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.