STOP FLORIDA GOVERNOR RON DESANTIS FROM BLOCKING OUR VOTES

This effort violates the rights of over 100,000 felons who have served their sentence and have earned the right to voter restoration. It also disenfranchises over 5 million Florida voters who voted YES on restoration of these rights!! After multiple delays by DeSantis, in October 2019, U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle ruled that the state CANNOT deny the right to vote to someone who is "genuinely unable to pay". He cemented his ruling in May 2020 and laid out a process for the state to use in determining felons' voting eligibility, rejecting an attempt by DeSantis to put the ruling on hold. Instead DeSantis made a rare request for an appeal review by the full court. Plantiffs requesting dismissal of this lawsuit include the ACLU, the Campaign Legal Center, and the Southern Poverty Law Center, all who had requested the 11th Circuit turn down DeSantis' request for the full court, stating that the case should be expedited so potential voters could participate in Florida's August 18 primary and November 3 presidential election. Governor DeSantis' actions are a thinly veiled attempt to block these voters and completely overturn the votes of over 5 million Florida voters. I am a white female, native born Floridian, a lifelong voter, and a retired police officer, and I am mad as hell that MY vote for Amendment 4 is not being counted! Imagine how the thousands of former non-violent felons feel, some of who served their sentences decades ago, and who are a diverse population of men & women of every color feel?