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Florida abortion rights groups collect enough signatures to advance ballot measure (www.nbcnews.com)

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

anybody remember Florida's Amendment 4, where "restore voting rights to felons" was interpreted by Florida's bourgeois dictatorship as "you can vote once you give us a pile of money for court fees and anything else we can think of making you pay for"

On September 11, 2020, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit overturned the lower court ruling. It states that the requirement for felons to pay fines did not violate the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and so they could not vote unless they had paid the fees and fines.

fucking undemocratic racist shithole country

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

They should move higher on the basis of the 24th amendment. It makes it quite explicit.

https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-24/

Section 1

The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.

Section 2

The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-fourth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution

1966 that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6–3 in Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections that poll taxes for any level of elections were unconstitutional. It said these violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Subsequent litigation related to potential discriminatory effects of voter registration requirements has generally been based on application of this clause.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The second, easily as fucked up part is that florida doesn't have an easy way to check or pay your court fees.

So even if you have the means, you cant consistently do it, leaving your right to vote blocked by intentionally ineffective bureaucracy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Yeah, first thing that popped into my head. Iirc, there was also shenanigans around the language when we passed mmj that limited what was sellable.