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Today’s GOP insanity
RE: Today’s GOP insanity
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(07-04-2019, 10:33 AM)Rajvik Wrote: That is not a poll tax, a poll tax is a requirement for you to pay a fee just to be able to vote. Here what you have is someone having to finish the monetary part of their sentence. You see, when you are convicted of a crime there are court costs and restitution that are part of the sentence that you are required to pay. All this law does is make it clear where it wasn't before, that you are also required to pay these fines as well as having served your time.
From the first article
Quote:The new law requires people with serious criminal histories to fully pay back fines and fees to the courts before they become eligible to vote.

‘Vox article’ Wrote:Voting rights advocates say that requiring a person to pay all of their fines and fees before registering will deny voting rights to hundreds of thousands of Floridians with felony convictions — a group civil rights organizations are calling “returning citizens.” Estimates have suggested that more than half a million people will be affected by the new financial obligation-paying requirement, and many will need to wait years to finish payments before they can vote. Others may never be able to clear their debts, meaning that they will be permanently disenfranchised.

Bolding mine. It quacks like a duck, etc.

The United States penal system already imposes penalties way beyond what could be claimed as justified, no matter the crime. The GOP is just using that feature to continue denying the right to vote once they lost the referendum. This in the end is no different from their shenanigans in Ohio Oregon because the end result is the same: denying a voice to the people they believe should not have a voice.

The GOP is making use of the Vetinary Principle: One man. One vote. The GOP is the only man. They have the only vote.
“We can never undo what we have done. We can never go back in time. We write history with our decisions and our actions. But we also write history with our responses to those actions. We can leave the pain and the damage in our wake, unattended, or we can do the work of acknowledging and fixing, to whatever extent possible, the harm that we have caused.”

— On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World by Danya Ruttenberg
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Today’s GOP insanity - by SilverFang01 - 05-08-2019, 06:47 PM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by robkelk - 05-08-2019, 07:10 PM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by SilverFang01 - 05-08-2019, 07:44 PM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by DHBirr - 05-08-2019, 09:23 PM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by classicdrogn - 05-08-2019, 10:42 PM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by Matrix Dragon - 05-08-2019, 11:34 PM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by Epsilon - 05-09-2019, 07:09 AM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by Dartz - 05-09-2019, 03:05 PM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by classicdrogn - 05-09-2019, 06:21 PM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by Labster - 05-09-2019, 06:34 PM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by classicdrogn - 05-09-2019, 07:21 PM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by SilverFang01 - 05-09-2019, 08:44 PM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by hazard - 05-09-2019, 11:29 PM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by Epsilon - 05-10-2019, 07:31 AM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by Dartz - 05-10-2019, 01:54 PM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by robkelk - 05-10-2019, 07:16 PM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by Epsilon - 05-12-2019, 07:34 AM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by Matrix Dragon - 05-12-2019, 08:03 AM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by Matrix Dragon - 05-10-2019, 07:46 PM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by classicdrogn - 05-10-2019, 07:54 PM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by Rajvik - 05-12-2019, 08:42 AM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by SilverFang01 - 05-12-2019, 06:53 PM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by hazard - 05-12-2019, 01:34 PM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by Dartz - 05-12-2019, 02:19 PM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by Norgarth - 05-12-2019, 07:43 PM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by Valles - 05-14-2019, 01:52 PM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by robkelk - 05-12-2019, 08:25 PM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by classicdrogn - 05-12-2019, 11:27 PM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by robkelk - 05-13-2019, 08:16 AM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by Labster - 05-13-2019, 12:06 AM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by classicdrogn - 05-13-2019, 12:40 AM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by Rajvik - 05-14-2019, 08:35 PM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by robkelk - 05-14-2019, 08:44 PM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by Labster - 05-14-2019, 09:06 PM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by Matrix Dragon - 05-14-2019, 10:41 PM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by Bob Schroeck - 05-15-2019, 07:10 AM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by Matrix Dragon - 05-15-2019, 08:02 AM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by classicdrogn - 05-15-2019, 08:03 AM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by Norgarth - 05-15-2019, 09:56 AM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by Dartz - 05-15-2019, 01:49 PM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by Rajvik - 05-15-2019, 09:15 PM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by Jinx999 - 05-16-2019, 12:29 AM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by robkelk - 05-15-2019, 09:25 PM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by Rajvik - 05-16-2019, 01:14 PM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by Dartz - 05-16-2019, 01:42 PM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by classicdrogn - 05-16-2019, 03:00 PM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by hazard - 05-16-2019, 06:03 PM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by Norgarth - 05-27-2019, 09:36 PM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by Labster - 05-27-2019, 10:47 PM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by Matrix Dragon - 05-28-2019, 12:58 AM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by Black Aeronaut - 05-28-2019, 11:37 PM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by hazard - 05-29-2019, 04:58 AM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by classicdrogn - 05-29-2019, 06:20 AM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by Matrix Dragon - 06-27-2019, 10:58 PM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by robkelk - 07-03-2019, 06:19 PM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by hazard - 06-27-2019, 11:34 PM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by Rajvik - 06-28-2019, 08:16 PM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by Isodecan - 06-28-2019, 09:34 PM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by Epsilon - 06-29-2019, 05:11 AM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by hazard - 06-29-2019, 05:26 AM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by robkelk - 06-29-2019, 10:42 AM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by Matrix Dragon - 06-28-2019, 08:39 PM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by Matrix Dragon - 06-28-2019, 09:58 PM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by Norgarth - 06-29-2019, 12:23 PM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by Rajvik - 06-30-2019, 06:05 AM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by Matrix Dragon - 06-30-2019, 06:21 AM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by hazard - 06-30-2019, 07:18 AM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by Rajvik - 06-30-2019, 07:37 AM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by hazard - 06-30-2019, 08:47 AM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by Rajvik - 06-30-2019, 06:56 AM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by classicdrogn - 06-30-2019, 08:13 AM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by Rajvik - 06-30-2019, 08:25 AM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by Dartz - 06-30-2019, 08:48 AM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by Matrix Dragon - 06-30-2019, 09:08 AM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by robkelk - 06-30-2019, 01:13 PM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by DHBirr - 06-30-2019, 06:07 PM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by Epsilon - 07-01-2019, 08:13 AM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by Mamorien - 07-01-2019, 04:19 PM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by Rajvik - 07-03-2019, 07:09 PM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by classicdrogn - 07-01-2019, 07:27 PM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by DHBirr - 07-02-2019, 03:10 PM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by classicdrogn - 07-03-2019, 05:55 PM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by SilverFang01 - 07-04-2019, 05:56 AM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by SilverFang01 - 07-04-2019, 06:00 AM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by hazard - 07-04-2019, 08:13 AM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by SilverFang01 - 07-04-2019, 11:40 AM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by Rajvik - 07-04-2019, 10:33 AM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by SilverFang01 - 07-04-2019, 11:37 AM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by hazard - 07-04-2019, 11:55 AM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by robkelk - 07-04-2019, 12:35 PM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by Rajvik - 07-04-2019, 03:07 PM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by hazard - 07-04-2019, 04:14 PM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by Rajvik - 07-04-2019, 05:56 PM
WikiLeaks Strikes Again? - by DHBirr - 07-06-2019, 08:05 PM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by hazard - 07-06-2019, 08:15 PM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by SilverFang01 - 07-12-2019, 04:58 PM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by robkelk - 07-12-2019, 07:01 PM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by SilverFang01 - 07-13-2019, 10:16 AM
RE: Today’s GOP insanity - by robkelk - 07-13-2019, 12:54 PM

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