Not really - it’s pretty much a done deal. Constitutional amendments in florida are done in phases. One of the phases requires that the advocates of the amendment appear before the florida Supreme Court and explain the proposed amendment.
With this amendment, those fuckers went to the court and told them point blank that “all terms” includes paying all fines and restitution before getting your right to vote restored.
It was only after the amendment passed that democrats attempted their power grab by saying all terms really only means serving the prison sentence.
I thought the issue is on if they can prove a person has anything left to pay. It’s kinda a catch 22. 2/3 of the population here voted for this and DeSantis and some of the new judges blocked it, People get pissed about that shit. I personally think everyone should have just voted no.
I can see that. I’ve actually looked at this more since your comment about it getting overturned as I had missed that last month. From what findlaw says the fines and restitutions only effect roughly half of the 1.4 Million felons that had there voting rights “restored”. So there still is roughly 700k new eligible voters.
Not really - it’s pretty much a done deal. Constitutional amendments in florida are done in phases. One of the phases requires that the advocates of the amendment appear before the florida Supreme Court and explain the proposed amendment.
With this amendment, those fuckers went to the court and told them point blank that “all terms” includes paying all fines and restitution before getting your right to vote restored.
It was only after the amendment passed that democrats attempted their power grab by saying all terms really only means serving the prison sentence.
I thought the issue is on if they can prove a person has anything left to pay. It’s kinda a catch 22. 2/3 of the population here voted for this and DeSantis and some of the new judges blocked it, People get pissed about that shit. I personally think everyone should have just voted no.
Everyone i know who voted for it would have never done so had they not believed that it would require the felon to pay all his fines and restitution.
I can see that. I’ve actually looked at this more since your comment about it getting overturned as I had missed that last month. From what findlaw says the fines and restitutions only effect roughly half of the 1.4 Million felons that had there voting rights “restored”. So there still is roughly 700k new eligible voters.