Except for Broward and Dade county…
At least that is what the plan is…
Really? How can they do that?
C’mon, the GOP are masters of that shit…
They will find a way…
So who’s going to court the block bloc?
Great.
Now reinstate all of the names that have been purged from the rolls in the last four years.
…and the Florida Secretary of State has moved with alacrity to set up a dedicated registration station for felons to register to move, located on a muddy island in the everglades.
“This island is accessible whenever the tide is low enough and it hasn’t been raining much lately. You may want to rent a fanboat.”
When asked about felons registering in their home counties, the Secretary said, “Why should we do that when we’ve got a dedicated facility? Much more efficient that way, and the gators need to eat.”
I hear the Broward and Dade registration forms have a return address from Georgia.
Whether the number is 700k or 1.4 million the often outmaneuvered Florida Democratic Party needs to demonstrate that it’s not going to leave voters on the table. Getting a margin of 50k, 80k, 100k would make the difference in a lot of FL statewide races and perhaps congressional races as well.
They are former felons, not felons. They’ve paid their debt to society, which is precisely why they should be able to vote again. Please write more accurate headlines.
Its a big assumption, that a lot of people are making, that the overwhelming majority of ex-felons who register will be Democrats. And there isn’t all that much to support that assumption.
Yes, there are a large number of African Americans included. But there are also a whole lot of rural white people, too. The net will probably be + Dem, but its not going to be the huge numbers that keep getting implied.
But I am going to take exception to that statement, as someone who worked in 5 counties over the course of the last election cycle in FL. In my little Panhandle county alone, with roughly 26K registered Dems, we knocked around 12,000 doors and made over 14,000 phone calls. That’s not including the extensive texting operations we ran.
We didn’t leave votes on the table. And as the guy who organized the entire recount efforts in my county, I can definitely say we weren’t outmaneuvered by local republicans, either. They were amazed at how organized our operation was and how high our volunteer turn out was.
Yahoo.
We didn’t have that same level of efficiency in Broward, Palm Beach or Dade. Left votes on the table and came up short. Nelson and Gillum pretty much outperformed HRC most everywhere except South Florida.
The first 100,000 or so better have good lawyers, because the state will no doubt “investigate” all the ones with suspicious names to make sure they didn’t have 30 seconds of probation left, or a warrant for an unpaid parking ticket.
Will this include Donnie if / when he gets out of prison?
I agree that Broward, Palm Beach and Dade under performed. (By something like 5+ points from the early analysis I did right after the election). They decided they could do the ground game with a patchwork of groups, most notable unions, and therefore didn’t want/need any help from the FDP. And as it turned out, they were very, very wrong. But that was a decision largely made by those counties, and not one that the FDP forced upon them.
The one other problem, which the FDP probably does have part of the blame, is we did a poor job of outreach to the various Hispanic communities, particularly in South and Central FL. That proved very damaging because Scott spent a great deal of effort and focus on reaching those communities. And it paid off for him (and DeSantis by proxy).