Progressive organizations, many financed by billionaire activist George Soros, are working overtime to restore voting rights for Florida’s nearly 1.4 million ex-felons as the nation’s biggest swing state seems poised to play a pivotal electoral role in the 2020 presidential race.
The current battle revolves around a Florida state amendment that was passed last year restoring voting rights for felons, with progressive groups opposing a local bill that would require the state’s ex-felons to first pay civil fines and court fees before registering to vote.
Florida’s Amendment Four was approved by voters during last year’s Midterm election.
The heavily Soros-funded American Civil Liberties Union and Brennan Center for Justice based in New York both served as consultants in drafting Amendment Four.
Soros’s Open Society Foundations donated $50 million to the ACLU. The Brennan Center has been the recipient of numerous grants from Soros’s Open Society Foundations totaling over $7,466,000 from 2000 to 2010 alone.
Desmond Meade, president of the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition, helped lead activism that put Florida’s Amendment Four on the ballot last year, including a news-making petition to restore voting rights to the released felons. His group is currently opposing efforts to require the former felons to pay their court fees prior to regaining their voting rights.
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Ex-felons and current felons should not have the right to vote in this country. Especially if their crimes are #1, #2 crimes murder and rape.
ReplyDeleteWhen will Soros and his cronies and all of their organizations be declared enemies of the the state and done away with? This group and the obamites are destroying democracy in this world.
ReplyDeleteOkay, so the dems have the deceased, illegal aliens, voters voting in multiple states, and now felons. They want 16 year olds, what’s next. I know, people from other countries.
ReplyDeleteseal team six..get on it Soros is a war criminal subversive communist.
ReplyDelete100 % where do I sign up.
DeleteWhy is this asswipe soros still breathing
DeleteIs it his money or fame that keeps this "creature" in the US.
ReplyDeleteSo is Bernie now being funded by Soros since he said felons should vote?
ReplyDeleteTime for the CIA to do what they do best. Get SOROS once and for ALL. Russia can poison people. North Korea does the same. SOROS needs to be neutralize.
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