My opinion is, If you can walk the streets as a legal adult, you should be able to vote. Its not easy to discuss whether pending fines or criminal history reflect on if people change for the better, sometimes. My point is that I don't want upstanding citizens hampered by their financial situations based on their past time in prison and ability to pay sometimes arbitrary debts to the state.

That being said, you have to have your head in the sand to not believe Bloomberg isn't attempting to buy votes. He would have kept his anonymity, if he didn't want the people he's "helping" know that a prominent Democrat paid their debts. Also, why not help the felons in Tennessee pay their fines off? Is it because they don't live in a swing state?