On February 1, a U.S. District Court ruled that Florida must have uniform, non-arbitrary rules on how ex-felons may regain their ability to register to vote. The decision noted that during the four years when Governor Charlie Crist was Governor, 154,000 ex-felons had their voting rights restored. But in the first three years of Rick Scott’s governorship, only 3,000 had voting rights restored.
The state appealed to the Eleventh Circuit, and it also asked the District Court to stay its own order. On April 4, the U.S. District Court Judge refused to stay his own order, which had told the state to write uniform rules by April 26. Now the state is asking the Eleventh Circuit to stay the order. If the Eleventh Circuit takes no action by April 26, then the state will be in contempt if it hasn’t drafted any uniform rules. The case is James Hand v Rick Scott. In the Eleventh Circuit the case number is 18-11388.
Well, Gov Scott has always been a candidate for most contemptible so I’d expect his efforts to comply with a non-negotiable mandate to facilitate a just scheme to accomplish the larger goal of just voting will be on par with the efforts of republicans in Pennsylvania legislature to redraw district lines that are not primarily gerrymandered; He’s hard-wired to dismiss appeals to redress political equality.
One more ConAM sec —
Each Citizen of the United States who is or will be 18 or more years old on an Election Day and who has registered to vote at least 35 days before the Election Day shall be an Elector with the right to vote on all ballot items in his/her election precinct.
NOOOOOO – mental/crime stuff.