SpokenTruth said:
jason1637 said: Doesnt have much to do with the primary ut it deals with the 2020 election and I foudn this interesting. https://www.apnews.com/15bbc35f3c6249db8b348e8694a16334 Strategist are saying that the DNC needs to register 500k people to ensure they can win Florida. Florida has been trending red since 2014. The only two demographics growing there are old white folds and Latino Americans. Republicans do pretty good with old white folks and can usually get 35-50% of the Latino American vote there so they have the advantage there. The Republicans have been going to gun shows to register new voters so I wonder where the Democrats are goign to go to get the 500k voters. |
Well, if Governor DeSantis would stop blocking the will of the people who voted to restore rights to felons after they have served their time, we'd have about 1.5 million right there.
Florida has only been red because of a messed up law the Republicans pushed years ago that rescinded voting rights to all felons. the only way to get voting rights restored was a direct plea of redress to the governor and they have rarely granted it. Now it was voted on by the people and won, overwhelmingly so, to restore voting rights. But instead of enacting what we voted for, he keeps adding other rules and hurdles.
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I remember you brought that up before and was looking into it yesterday. http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/reply.php?id=239623"e=9045508 Vox wrote about it back in November.
Apparently from 2007-2011 voting rights were restored to 150k ex felons. There was no clear partisan divide and a very little amount of them voted. According to their math based on the 2007-2011 stats Democrats would have generated 54k more votes and Republicans 40k more votes which would have not flipped the 2016 election. It would flip the 2018 senate race but the the Governor's one so there's that atleast.
DeSantis should stop blocking it because the amendment was voted on and should be fully enacted but even then it might be hard to gauge how many voters would come out and even harder to figure out how many would vote D.