Florida restores voting rights to convicts

[sunonmars]

This is the big prize, this could turn Florida in the future.

[superpatriotman]

1. The voting-restored will vote 50/50

Just like the rest of the state.

[Hoyt]

2. Agree with restoring voting rights. Not sure winning elections because of it is something to tout.

[TomSlick]

3. Felon disenfranchisement is a vestige Jim Crow law.

The only real reason for felon disenfranchisement is to keep AA - especially AA males - from voting. If allowing AA men to vote causes the Democrats to win elections, then it is something to tout.

[Hoyt]

4. Not really, but think it was the right thing to do.

[TomSlick]

5. It's not a coincidence that the felon disenfranchisement laws in the south

passed during Jim Crow. Arkansas' version is in our post-reconstruction (i.e. Jim Crow) Constitution.

It's an easy game. The southern states disenfranchised felons - small time, non-violent felons - and then ran a judicial system that convicts young AA men of felonies at a rate massively beyond the percentage of the population. The system has been uniquely efficient at keeping AA men from the polls since the end of the Civil War.

A proposal like that passed in Florida will not pass in Arkansas in my lifetime because the majority of White folk in Arkansas don't want more Black folk voting.