ABC News writer Roey Hadar has this revealing article on how Florida Governors have utter discretion to decide which ex-felons may have their voting rights restored, and which may not. He uses an example of an applicant who had voted illegally, but who told the Governor at the clemency hearing that he had voted for the Governor. The Governor laughed and then restored his voting rights. In another example, an applicant was denied because the Governor was dismayed that he had received traffic tickets.
END the evil rotted machinations by ALL HACKS in ALL regimes.
Elector-Voter = USA Citizen, 18 or more, registered 28 days before Election Day
— NO rigged mental machinations, NO rigged criminal machinations.
Repeal ALL the negative stuff in USA Const — vestige of BAD OLDE days.
The story is misleading.
Florida, along with Virginia and Iowa do not restore the right to vote for felons after they have served their sentence. The article gives the impression that the distinction for the three is that they do not restore voting rights of non-violent felons.
Other states restore voting rights to felons after they have completed service of their sentences. In Florida, Virginia, and Iowa the felony conviction is in effect permanent, and voting rights can be restored only via clemency.
The felon who was denied clemency allegedly because of numerous speeding tickets had been convicted of a violent crime (accessory to robbery). Maybe he had been the get away driver, and had been caught while speeding.
We don’t know the circumstances of the felon who said that he had voted for Rick Scott. Perhaps he had committed some non-violent crime in 1964, served his sentence, and not even been aware that he could not vote. Presumably, there is an investigation prior to the hearing. It might not be uncommon for the clemency board to make its decision immediately after the oral hearing.