Our Dark Lord Gov. Voldemart Revives Law Originally Intended To Disenfranchise Blacks

[Dappleganger]

On Wednesday, Gov. Rick Scott (R-FL), along with his cabinet, reinstated a rule with major civil rights implications requiring felons to wait at least five years beyond the end of their sentence before applying to regain the right to vote. From the Palm Beach Post:

Gov. Rick Scott and the Florida Cabinet on Wednesday imposed a minimum five-year waiting period for convicted felons to apply to have their rights restored, setting up a more onerous standard than the state has used for the past three decades.
Gov. Jeb Bush (R) dismantled the five-year waiting period in 2004, in the wake of the controversial 2000 presidential election, during which thousands of Floridians were disenfranchised after a state voter database erroneously labeled them felons. The effects of the felony disenfranchisement law in 2000 were that "over 600,000 non-incarcerated citizens" were prevented from voting "in a presidential election decided by 537 votes." In 2007, Gov. Charlie Crist (I) did away with the application process for nonviolent felons and allowed for the automatic restoration of civil rights upon sentence completion.

Gov. Scott's move to turn back the clock is unusual in itself; the only other states with similar laws are Virginia and Kentucky. But the historical context and the practical implications of the law are far more troubling than Scott's restoration of the harshly punitive policy.

http://politicalcorrection.org/blog/201103110003

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He's positioning this state to deliver REPUBLICAN for the next election!

[PA Democrat]

1. Pretty hypocritical for a criminal who defrauded Medicare and should be in jail himself.

[EFerrari]

2. The DoJ should get all over this but they won't

because right now, the Democratic leadership is treating Florida like a BushCo principality with which they have an armed truce.

[madrchsod]

9. this is a state issue.

florida is another mexico..

[EFerrari]

10. Voting Rights Act violation in progress, a federal issue, too. n/t

[Angry Dragon]

3. RRR political scum

[glinda]

4. Dark Lord Gov. Voldemart... perfect!

:rofl:

[truebrit71]

5. See, this is the kind of shit I point to whenever anyway says Obama gets re-elected in a landslide..

...He won't get alot of the states he carried last time..that's why i caution those that get all happy at the idea of a Caribou Barbie campaign..she could wind up getting in...

[Ozymanithrax]

6. Because they are moving agressivly to fix the 2012 election...

Everything they are doing, nation wide, is only to get them the Oval office.

[Dappleganger]

8. +10000

[Solly Mack]

7. K&R

[loudsue]

11. The republican party string pullers have pulled out ALL the stops.

They are going to ramrod the 2012 elections that will make "shock & awe" look tame by comparison. It's going to be uglier than anything any of us have ever seen.

[DirkGently]

12. We have invited a vampire into our home here in FL. He will suck as long & hard as he can.