39-28 B Trump judges require that ex-felons pay to vote

How nasty is the Republican Party’s massive campaign to thwart democracy? Ask the good people of Florida.

This was one of only three states that permanently took away the voting rights of felons – who’d completed their punishment. In 2018, though, a whopping 65 percent of Floridians voted for a state constitutional amendment that finally struck this malicious bit of legal ugliness from the books, thus restoring the political personhood of about a million people who’d served their time.