LMAO, that's quite the turnaround. He knows he's losing Florida, and he'll lose it handily if the white elderly people who are afraid to go to a polling station don't vote. Mail in ballots it is!
Fine with me. Lebron and his buddies are going to get a bunch of ex-felons their voting abilities just in time for the election.
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-w...ons-seeking-to
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LeBron James' group to donate $100K to pay fines for ex-felons seeking to vote in Florida
The voting rights group founded by NBA star LeBron James and other athletes is committed to donating $100,000 to help pay outstanding fines and fees for former felons seeking to vote in Florida.
More Than A Vote plans to make the donation to the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition, an organization that helped push a 2018 ballot measure that restored the right to vote to the former felon population in the Sunshine State, ABC News reported.
The money will be used to help former felons pay off any outstanding court debts related to their convictions so they can register to vote.
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State Republicans in the Florida House pushed through a law last April that established the requirement for felons to pay all court fees and costs, in addition to restitution, before becoming eligible to vote.
The measure significantly curtailed a state constitutional amendment voted on by Floridans during the 2018 elections that restored voting rights to about 1.4 million ex-convicts.
Critics argued that the bill, signed into law by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), was an unconstitutional modern-day “poll tax” that would keep felons disenfranchised.
Several poor, court-indebted felons who had otherwise served out their sentences asked a federal court to strike down the pay requirement on constitutional grounds.
A federal trial court on May invalidated the payment component, ruling that it was unlawful to prohibit voting access based on indigence.
Several weeks later, the Atlanta-based Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit agreed to halt the lower court ruling while an appeal played out, effectively making it illegal for court-indebted felons to register to vote or cast ballots.
Last week, the conservative-majority Supreme Court declined to revisit the 11th Circuit ruling.
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This is the "attempted change" that Donald is referring to which he thinks is defeated (it's not, just in limbo).
Just despicable. Republicans are so anti-democratic it's not even funny. An amendment was voted on by the vast majority of Floridians, and overwhelmingly, left and right, they said people should vote, even if they were felons at one time, and yet the republican government and conservative judiciary can't get their heads around that idea.
The right has completely lost touch with what America is these days. They're going to find that fact out pretty quickly in November.
Good on Lebron and co. to get this done.