richard09
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 | | Subject: ‘A joyous day’ ahead as 1.4 million Florida ex-felons have voting rights restored Tue Jan 08, 2019 6:39 am | |
| Maybe this will stir things up in Florida. ‘A joyous day’ ahead as 1.4 million Florida ex-felons have voting rights restored - Washington Post wrote:
- One of the largest enfranchisements of U.S. citizens in the past century begins Tuesday in Florida, and many of the more than 1.4 million ex-felons set to regain their voting rights here are treating the moment as a celebration.
In Tampa, one group is renting buses to register en masse at the county elections office. Others will be live-streaming on Facebook as they march in. Demetrius Jifunza, convicted as a teen of armed robbery, is now a father and pastor who wants to make his daughters proud.
“It’ll be a joyous day,” Jifunza said of the trip to the Sarasota County Supervisor of Elections office, a journey made possible when voters in November overturned Florida’s 1868 ban blocking residents with felony convictions from automatically having their voting rights restored once they served their sentences. |
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Jenni
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Location : Jackson, MS
| | Subject: Re: ‘A joyous day’ ahead as 1.4 million Florida ex-felons have voting rights restored Tue Jan 08, 2019 2:41 pm | |
| Bout time. That shit has been ridiculous for years. |
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